Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have take [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 2 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 3 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 4 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 5 | Salesman : ‘ sorry , guv , you 'll have to take a black Datsun because it does the same job , and is cheaper ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 7 | More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was . |
| 8 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 9 | It is important to remember , however , that the Alexander Technique is not a treatment or a cure , because you will have to take an active part in the process . |
| 10 | But it does not follow , as Strawson asserts that it does , that we should have to take an objective attitude to all behaviour just like the attitude we now take to behaviour we call abnormal . |
| 11 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 12 | But they must have taken an awful lot of barrels away . |
| 13 | I would 've thought they could 've like somebody with an older text , they could 've took the old one out and shoved one of these back into it . |
| 14 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 15 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 16 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 17 | During the last war Bert was asked if lie had received his " Calling up papers " , his reply was " They will have to take the old horse as well " . |
| 18 | If the scientists succeed , they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices . |
| 19 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 20 | So yo , so you 're saying that it should have been explained to the man from West Calder that that 's the sort of , er level of charges he 'd had to pay and if he did n't want to pay it he should have taken a different house ? |
| 21 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 22 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 23 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 24 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 25 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
| 26 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 27 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 28 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 29 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 30 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |