Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] has take a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On this occasion she is at a posh party , where she has taken a glass of champagne , but only ‘ to be sociable ’ — a motive which in anyone else would have driven Patrick to contemplate another of the umpteen blows he feels like unleashing — when the novelist unleashes one of his phonological jokes , which play on vagaries of pronunciation .
2 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 .
3 Fifteen Para , which has its headquarters in my constituency , was being marched to oblivion until public opinion brought itself to bear on the Ministry , and I am grateful that it has taken a step backwards , but we still do not know what size that step is .
4 It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required .
5 Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all .
6 If one has to take a view of the balance between the reinforce-and-stick-with-it , or the cut-your-loss schools , I think I tend to favour the cut-your-loss brigade .
7 Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack .
8 Leeds , UK-based VisionWare Ltd is supposed to announce its fourth product at Xhibition this week , but since it has taken a vow of silence everyone will have to wait until Thursday to find out what 's going on .
9 John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint .
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