Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 2 | ‘ I can not comment any further , except to say that I have taken legal advice on this matter . ’ |
| 3 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 4 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 5 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 6 | Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’ |
| 7 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 8 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 9 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 10 | Vaguely he wished that he had taken more interest in old science . |
| 11 | The dog will feel that he has taken one step up the ladder if he is allowed into your sleeping quarters . |