Example sentences of "[pron] have take [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell |
| 2 | I have taken a stand for freedom against tyranny . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems terrible now , David , to think that you 've taken the blame for so long for something you did n't do . |
| 4 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
| 5 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 6 | We 've taken the canal for granted in the past , but now we 're looking forward . |
| 7 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 8 | Er we would like to see that improved , indeed part of the proposals for er these schemes before us today , we have taken the opportunity for Killinghall of extending that original close in bypass to bypass sections indeed some of the poorest sections of the A sixty one , to the north of Killinghall where we have a very bad accident record , those will be bypassed by the continuation of this scheme north of Killinghall . |
| 9 | So far , we have taken the operators for granted . |
| 10 | Well , considering the security here in Great Britain , I hope that they have taken a precaution for that , but then we 're dealing with a person who does not go by the book . |
| 11 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 12 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 13 | I know that the rules for feature-page articles are different from those for reviews , but I do think that Alan Clark , who was given large space on the Times ’ main feature page , could have got around to mentioning the book from which he had taken the material for his strictures of Churchill before his last two paragraphs : ‘ And yet , so docile and leader-oriented is the Conservative Party [ Whoops ! |