Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have taken a [noun sg] " 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 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 6 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 7 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 8 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 9 | If you tackle it along the lines suggested in this booklet , you will have taken a step towards reducing the appalling costs the problem imposes on all of us . |
| 10 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 11 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 12 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 13 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 14 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 15 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 16 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 17 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 18 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 19 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 20 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 21 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
| 22 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |
| 23 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 24 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
| 25 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 26 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 27 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 28 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 29 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 30 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |