Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , in the early days , it had failed completely , and sometimes I had had to take a double dose before I changed into Hyde . |
| 2 | Slaughtermen in the UK need to be licensed ( although the requirements are often easily met and there are no statutory national standards ) and those that I have observed take a grim pride in doing the job with efficiency . |
| 3 | I have attempted to take a rapid view of developments in critical theory , or criticism with a theoretical consciousness , as they have appeared in British culture in the past twenty years . |
| 4 | I am sorry to say this , but there would appear to have been a number of houses in recent times , some of the highest pedigree , which have tended to take a competitive attitude towards each other and have not been above ‘ showing off ’ to guests a butler 's mastery of such trivial accomplishments . |
| 5 | Er but erm the fact is i if you 're a non-taxpayer , obviously we 've got to take a different view of the way you that you might invest money . |
| 6 | Yet , against all odds , he continued , " we have managed to take a gigantic step forward " , and proceeded to enumerate the regime 's achievements in grandiose — and extremely vague — terms . |
| 7 | He 's made a few of the lads sit up , and now they 've got to take a good , hard look at themselves . ’ |
| 8 | They have vowed to take a tough line on solvents after The Northern Echo uncovered glue abuse in Darlington . |
| 9 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 10 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 11 | Nothing was resolved and Athelstan felt he had failed to take a decisive role . |