Example sentences of "[pron] have take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Last time , I had to take the other route from Larne to Stranraer in Scotland .
2 I had to take the whole test again because I blinked , ’ he said .
3 It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less .
4 I had taken the Big C to Agincourt .
5 ‘ This man is n't the King because I 've taken the real King prisoner and murdered his servant . ’
6 I 've taken the small phial of poison Brampton 's supposed to have used . ’
7 Er but er this is the position as it is now and I I 've taken the conservative position as always .
8 Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text .
9 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 .
10 A buyer who has taken the formal step of signing a document will therefore find it difficult to show that it was not a contractual document .
11 This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time .
12 You 've taken the full course at the Academy of Marksmanship .
13 SERAFIN : You 've taken the inverted commas off ?
14 It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message .
15 And was it for this awfulness that she had taken the great jump that would divide her from the rest of her life , that she could never go back to , for this she had put herself beyond the pale and ruined her life ?
16 Mr Clare was telling his son about the new d'Urberville family who had taken the ancient name and lived near Trantridge .
17 Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test
18 She compared the results of students who had taken the regular lecture course with those of students using the computer-based programme and found no statistical difference in the amount of learning .
19 I let me give you an example , I 've always respected erm Teddy Taylor and John Biffen who have taken the extreme view on Europe .
20 Curiously , his other life as a painter could be part of the explanation : ‘ If you 're an artist you have to take the holistic view , ’ he suggests .
21 Cos if you leave d go the cord straight away the cord just goes shooting up there , the weight inside comes down here and you lose the cord and you have to take the whole lot p t apart in order to get the thing to work again .
22 It appears that you have taken the real content of my personal views out of their true context and treated them with an interpretation that I least expected .
23 At the end of the call , quickly run through what has been said , to make sure that you have taken the right order or been given the correct information .
24 If you have taken the recommended Norwich Union insurance cover you must make an insurance claim under the Legal Expenses section in respect of any legal fees incurred abroad for that purpose , and if you have taken alternative insurance , you must do likewise under any Legal Expenses cover provided by it .
25 If you have taken the previous walk around the Hradčany leave the Strahov Monastery by Úvoz Street , the road originally connecting the Hradčany with the Malá Strana and marking the boundary between the two districts .
26 If you have taken the sensible option of a Boar Boyz Boss this gives you a formidable front line with eight Orc and three Boar attacks concentrated into three models , not to mention the effect of magic weapons or the war boars ' charge .
27 Hang on , can I just check out your question , certainly we 've taken the Cutteslowe health and housing audit to this committee , and so has housing
28 So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’
29 We have to take the long-term view on a market which will be important by the end of the decade .
30 They 'd taken the motorised dinghy across to explore the fairy-tale clarity of the water in the natural sea caves of the Blue Grotto , then on Roman 's orders had spurned the small cove he 'd mentioned as too crowded , and returned to take the yacht further out to sea , choosing a peaceful place to drop anchor and eat the picnic he 'd stowed away as a surprise …
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