Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] have taken [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 2 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 3 | This accords with a remark Johnson made to Boswell as they drove towards Aberdeen : ‘ I might have taken the side of the savage equally , had anybody else taken the side of the shopkeeper . ’ |
| 4 | In fact there were very few guide dogs at that time and erm I 've never felt that erm it 's , I mean maybe just my erm silliness really but I , I never wanted a dog lying about all day because once at the office I stayed put as it were until it was time to go home and I could have taken the dog I suppose during the lunch hour but I preferred that time to erm to reading |
| 5 | ‘ I would have taken the girls . |
| 6 | ‘ Then she may have taken the poison for one of the spices . |
| 7 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 9 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
| 10 | ‘ You should have taken the cover off before you filled it , ’ she went on , taking the bottle , almost snatching it , out of Rupert 's hand . |
| 11 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 12 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 13 | Once I 'd discounted the story you gave me about Lori 's reasons for being there , I realised the note could only have come from her , and therefore she must have taken the jade . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We were discussing it , my wife and I. She must have taken the things that morning before she set out . |
| 15 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 16 | I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true ! |
| 17 | She could have taken the phone up to her room , but she felt too annoyed with Peter to want to prolong the call . |
| 18 | She often said in her letters , if only she 'd known how it was going to turn out , she 'd have taken the baby with her . |
| 19 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 20 | ‘ You could have taken the money and kept quiet , ’ he said abruptly . |
| 21 | ‘ She would have taken the cat with her if she 'd done that . ’ |
| 22 | If you tackle it along the lines suggested in this booklet , you will have taken a step towards reducing the appalling costs the problem imposes on all of us . |
| 23 | ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’ |
| 24 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 25 | We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains . |
| 26 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 27 | I welcome the declaration , which is a big step forward , but , given British experience and law , we could have had a directive in which we could have taken the lead . |
| 28 | So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on . |
| 29 | Had profitable South African firms not been constrained by sanctions and exchange controls , they would have taken the profits they made from gold , platinum and diamonds and invested them overseas . |
| 30 | Had either of the teams won , they would have taken the League leadership . |