Example sentences of "[pron] have take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reddened , said : ‘ I knew you would think I had taken too much responsibility on myself . ’ |
| 2 | I 've taken as much stick as praise since the line started in June , with people saying it 's not real recycling . |
| 3 | I 'm snowed under with work and I 've taken too much time off to be with you . |
| 4 | aware that erm the retention of this site is essential for expansion , since the British Library after forty years in construction has room for , will have room only for twelve hundred readers not many more than Great Russell Street while the French National Library which has taken only five years to build and will be completed next year , will have room for three-and-a-half-thousand readers . |
| 5 | In one stroke ( which has taken about two years to organise ) HarperCollins will substantially reduce overheads and become a major force in the mass market field . |
| 6 | I think that 's the same situation as with nuclear power , which has taken perhaps fifty years from its discovery to its application on a large scale . |
| 7 | Although the campaign against apprenticeship brought a renewal of petitioning , by 1838 the Scots abolitionist William Smeal was expressing his disappointment at how ‘ cavalierly ’ petitions which had taken so much effort were received by the Commons . |
| 8 | THE HILARIOUS cry of the '70s rocker , dragged out for all festival reviews , particularly as a photo caption for the picture of a naked man who has taken too much acid and is lying up to his neck in a mud pool . |
| 9 | Though since she had taken only one glass of wine , she knew that when everything should have been against her feeling in any way relaxed she must thank Ven , and his charm as a host , for the fact that she was feeling so entirely at ease with him . |
| 10 | There are also others whose role in the home has changed or who have taken perhaps lesser jobs than they once had . ’ |
| 11 | You have taken away innocent men . |
| 12 | You have taken so many burdens from me , you are so level-headed and sensible . |
| 13 | Though Dykstra is confident Motherwell will avoid relegation — ‘ we have too many good players in the side to go down ’ — his manager was disappointed they had taken only one point . |
| 14 | They have taken just one point from their last five games . |
| 15 | Yet since January they have taken home less money than their teenage trainee . |
| 16 | Cyril Hollinshead has never been renowned for his batting — but he has taken almost 700 wickets for Gloucestershire Gipsies , the club he 's played for since 1938 . |
| 17 | It has taken nearly nine months to finalise all the accounts and each venture takes about six months to plan . |
| 18 | With our new store opening programme running to around 20 locations a year , it has taken relatively little time for the idea of the supermarket bakery not just to gain credence , but to become remarkably successful . |
| 19 | Indeed he 'd taken as much pleasure in the simple sight of her as he 'd taken in the act of love . |
| 20 | This , together with a piece by Mozart 's rival Salieri , was given in the orangery at the Schönbrunn palace on 7 February : it had taken just two weeks to write . |
| 21 | It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order . |
| 22 | It had taken about twenty seconds . |
| 23 | Normally , he said , it was not difficult to revive babies who suffered collapses , but it had taken quite some time to get signs of life from Liam . |
| 24 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 25 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
| 26 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |
| 27 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 28 | He had taken too much pâté , that was it … |
| 29 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
| 30 | Well I think that 's a good way of putting it , absolutely , I mean er As as I say but it it is erm I think it 's been a long process and to get I mean it 's taken nearly two years since the |