Example sentences of "[pron] have take [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only say how much I cherished the " Well done , lad " , from him after I 'd taken a difficult catch in the deep off his bowling . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it 's ridiculous , but it felt as if I 'd taken an enormous jump into the dark , that night with you … ’ |
| 3 | This time I had to take a double dose to return to my old shape . |
| 4 | Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said . |
| 6 | But , you see , I had taken a violent dislike to the short man . |
| 7 | It was the first time I had taken a close look at him . |
| 8 | When Panama City awakened , and after I had taken a small breakfast of pineapple , café con leche and a hard roll or two , I rented a small white Japanese car , acquired a map from the official cartographers who conduct their business under the curious name of the Instituto Geografico Nacional Tommy Guardia , and set out to look for Santa Fé , for William — and for the Pacific . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , Charles , I 've taken a good look at your latest victim . |
| 10 | Yeah erm w what I 've done , I 've measured I 've taken an exact measurement , |
| 11 | ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’ |
| 13 | Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always . |
| 14 | As I got nearer the Porsche I saw that during the night someone had taken a sharp instrument to the bodywork . |
| 15 | Although it appears that you did not make a large sum of money out of your dealing — at least as far as external appearances are concerned — I have to take a serious view of it . ’ |
| 16 | He will be aware that I have taken a great interest in Sri Lanka since I have been in the House . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ I have taken a great risk in coming to see you tonight . ’ |
| 18 | I have taken a long look at local government finance . |
| 19 | I have taken a particular reading of the work of both Lévi-Strauss and Barthes that emphasizes the influence of structuralist linguistics but points to the progression of these writers ' ‘ structuralism ’ away from linguistic analysis . |
| 20 | In the course of this chapter I have taken an historical perspective upon the nature of religious belief , looking in particular at writers from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries . |
| 21 | A matter which has taken a great deal of time was the proposal before ITAC in relation to future arrangements for the Electronic Distribution of the Crown Court List . |
| 22 | We increasingly face a racism which avoids being recognized as such because it is able to link ‘ race ’ with nationhood , patriotism and nationalism , a racism which has taken a necessary distance from crude ideas of biological inferiority and superiority and now seeks to present an imaginary definition of the nation as a unified cultural community . |
| 23 | PC Week , which has taken a new interest in Unix since the Novell announcement and will reportedly even grace us with its presence at Uniforum , attacked Microsoft 's NT last week in a pair of front-page stories headlined ‘ NetWare Casts Shadow Over NT . ’ |
| 24 | A company with similar beginnings to Star but which has taken a different direction is ACT , based in Birmingham . |
| 25 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 26 | The watchers were now bellowing encouragement to each of the players in a game which had taken a new turn . |
| 27 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 28 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 29 | But there are also groups within these communities which have taken the other route , and adopted the position of a ‘ race apart ’ , investing it with a positive image as a means of asserting the distinctiveness of their own culture and its powers of resistance to the dominant society . |
| 30 | Olshan makes Susan a powerful , smart , sensual woman moving surefootedly through the opulent Westchester County jungle where the Kaplans live : she issues orders to the au pair , knows the Manhattan-Hartsdale train times , and deals honestly with a husband who has taken a sexual vacation from her on the very afternoon of the Rosen drowning . |