Example sentences of "[pron] has take [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has . |
| 2 | The matter may also arise indirectly in situations in which the decision-maker belongs to an organisation which initiated the proceeding , but where he himself has taken no part in the decision to prosecute . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | as you know with dint of great effort , got er , the er , scheme off the ground , which has taken a lot of , all of us a lot of hard work , er , and we 're proposing other schemes at Bexford House . |
| 5 | It is a strange thing continuing to do something by choice which has taken the lives of your close friends … |
| 6 | But the problem is that this requires a teacher of genius ; and that a pupil has anyway only a brief time to get through work which has taken the lifetimes of many eminent predecessors : there must always be something artificial about heurism . |
| 7 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 8 | For Japan , which has taken the lead in the Cambodian operation , one more act of generosity might ensure the success of its most ambitious post-war venture into international affairs . |
| 9 | We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen . |
| 10 | Mick , who has taken a number of 20 lb pike from Essex waters this winter , travelled further afield from his Basildon home and fished a Predator Baits ' frozen mackerel on 11 lb line and two size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 11 | This reads as follows : If a settlor who has taken a loan from his settlement and has been charged to tax under the legislation repays the loan the tax previously charged is not of course repaid . |
| 12 | The number and variations of incidents in ‘ Hamlet ’ are primarily all connected with the incident of Hamlet 's hatred and eventual murder of his uncle , who has taken the throne after killing his ( Hamlet 's ) father Even though at times these may seem irrelevant to this theme , all tie in with Hamlet himself . |
| 13 | A. M. Fairbairn complained that the clergy had become ‘ more professional than social ’ and the Baptist C. F. Aked attacked ‘ the funny little assistant priest , who has taken the place of the old-fashioned curate ’ , the man who says |
| 14 | A MAN who has taken the town to his heart since moving to Darlington 12 years ago has double cause for celebration this week . |
| 15 | She wants companionship but , in order to achieve that , she has to take the risk of trusting someone else and take the risk of getting hurt . |
| 16 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 17 | Now listen answer the question I asked you , answer the question I asked you , she has taken a lot of drugs in the past , not Prozac . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 21 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 22 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 23 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 26 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 27 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 28 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 29 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 30 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |