Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 2 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 3 | The revolt itself has taken many forms , and issued in a variety of quite different conceptions of what philosophy itself is about . |
| 4 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 5 | They are like scraps from a tailor 's cutting room which have taken clumsy wing . |
| 6 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 7 | His trainer , David Barons , is convinced the horse was ‘ got at ’ but whatever the reason for Playschool 's failure it has taken all Barons 's skill and experience to get him back in racing condition after his latest setback . |
| 8 | ‘ The weather 's not improving , and with us wallowing around like a drunken whale we 've taken heavy seas over the stern . |
| 9 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 10 | On my first morning she had taken one look at me . |
| 11 | She was not altogether surprised by her father-in-law 's absence , because right from the start he had taken particular pleasure in taunting her in this way . |
| 12 | On 19 February 1804 Brigadier Engineer Reynaldo Oudinot , a Frenchman who had taken Portuguese nationality , arrived in Funchal to look into the problems of flooding in the city . |
| 13 | In the past it has taken great efforts by the Merseyside and Greater Manchester police to keep supporters apart in what is widely thought to be the most intense antagonism in the League . |
| 14 | Williams leaped for a header which dropped over Ian Walker and just under the bar — with the keeper finding he had taken one step too many off his line . |
| 15 | She gave a little gesture , out towards the windows , to the formal parterre which had taken twenty men as many months to relay and replant . |
| 16 | She started with the bones — good thing she had taken those anatomy courses — and laid on muscle , flesh and skin . |
| 17 | The flow of East German refugees swelled during the 24 hours to Sunday morning from the normal 500-600 to 1,184 , bringing the number who have taken that route since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 35,000 . |
| 18 | for this longer-term analysis we have taken those panel members who were interviewed in the Mid-Term Wave ( April-May 1986 ) , the Pre-Campaign Wave ( March-April 1987 ) , and the Post-Election Wave ( June 1987 ) . |
| 19 | Therefore , in addition to specifically charged items , one could recover 24 hours ' general perusals on litigation which had taken 2 years from issue of writ to trial . |
| 20 | Well apart from attaining a Flying Instructors ticket along with his Basic Commercial Pilot 's Licence , Commercial Pilot 's Licence and Air Transport Pilot 's Licence , this year he has taken many performance category ratings . |
| 21 | Many is the time I 've taken good fish , working the vane out across the wind by continuous adjustments to the line , holding back on the float etc. when others have sat waiting for the wind to swing around a couple of degrees . |
| 22 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 23 | He is a very shrewd businessman who has taken full advantage of having a market very largely to himself and who is suffering a temporary setback as a result of the economy . |
| 24 | Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts . |
| 25 | And then she said , when you said , well you wo they wo n't , I said , everyone knows because she said , by the time we has taken those people home , it would have been dark . |
| 26 | I mean I think that 's extremely important to allow children to erm you know play things out in the best way that they which is in a sense their way of coming to terms with things erm and to answer their questions as honestly as I can and to admit it when I do n't know the answers erm and also , I mean in our family we 've taken various actions to try to stop the war and we 've , you know , taken part in demonstrations and written letters and erm |