Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
2 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
3 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
4 | I 'll have to take a chance wo n't I ? |
5 | I 'll have to take a taxi . ’ |
6 | I 'll have to take the chance , love . |
7 | so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with |
8 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
9 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
10 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
11 | In any case , with the church deserted it would be quite safe I felt certain — provided there were no more nasty shocks , I 'd have to take a chance on that — to descend . |
12 | Oh yeah well er well wo I 'd take a pay cut because erm well I 'd have to take a pay cut anyway , but the thing is though , with my pension with my pension from day one I ai n't gon na be too bad off anyway . |
13 | I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus . |
14 | The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan . |
15 | We rented a plot of land and so I would have to take the meal out to my husband at mid-day . |
16 | ‘ I would have taken the girls . |
17 | Consequently the locomotive was returned to Bridgnorth and was not able to fulfil its Red Rose run on Monday September 23rd , which would have taken the locomotive from Crewe to Carnforth where it was to have had two south-bound outings on Cumbrian Mountain Expresses of October 26th and November 16th . |
18 | It may involve you in extra duties and worries at first : for instance , you may have to take the patient to his workplace by car , and collect him again , and the timing may not be convenient for you . |
19 | So she would have to she was to given up her career in acting , she may have to take a view and give up singing totally for a while . |
20 | ‘ Then she may have taken the poison for one of the spices . |
21 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
22 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
23 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
24 | ‘ You should have taken the cover off before you filled it , ’ she went on , taking the bottle , almost snatching it , out of Rupert 's hand . |
25 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
26 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
27 | Once I 'd discounted the story you gave me about Lori 's reasons for being there , I realised the note could only have come from her , and therefore she must have taken the jade . ’ |
28 | ‘ We were discussing it , my wife and I. She must have taken the things that morning before she set out . |
29 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
30 | Danger men such as Gerald Kaufman and John Prescott , who might have taken the wrapping off the chocolate box , were kept hidden from sight . |