Example sentences of "[modal v] have take [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 2 | I figured that Barry must have taken the duck for cover back in the alleyway . |
| 3 | I think he must have taken the key for my cottage from the board by the kitchen door . |
| 4 | Your boy could have taken the dive for the Mahoney kill . |
| 5 | He 'd have to take the flak for having a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 6 | ‘ Then she may have taken the poison for one of the spices . |
| 7 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |