Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] take [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Er , and I 'd forgotten to take the money up before Christmas so it was still here yesterday .
2 I had planned to take a train there ; to head south and see more of South America .
3 I do n't trust myself and , apart from Benjamin , I certainly did n't trust anyone else yet I had forgotten to take the key down with me .
4 I 've volunteered to take the stage curtains to the cleaners and I have n't done it yet I regret to say , so my apologies , it will get done eventually , er I hope .
5 Tom thunders , ‘ Who the hell are you ? ’ , and I try to tell him I 'm Albert Fyles and I 've come to take the place of his regular caddie .
6 No , you 'll have to clean it , I 've started taking the stuff off
7 Next Thursday I 've got to take a cheque into a , well a deposit into a my
8 yes , and I live in a pensioner 's house , furthest away from the shopping centre and I 've got to take a taxi of one pound forty a day to shop
9 I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal .
10 Oh I 've got to take a chance on it .
11 But I 've got to take the risk , in case they hurt my dad . ’
12 I 've got to take the traffic now .
13 I 've got to take the purse to the Isle of White .
14 He feels I 've got to take the client back
15 a ) Heres that book you asked me to bring ( The fact that you asked me to bring it is not new. ) b ) Ive got to take the dog for a walk ( ‘ For a walk ’ is by far the most probable thing to follow ‘ I 've got to take the dog ’ ; if the sentence ended with ‘ to the vet ’ the tonic syllable would probably be ‘ vet ’ . )
16 I have asked to take the lead for setting up Government Division .
17 I have asked to take the lead in setting up Commercial Division .
18 I have asked to take the lead in establishing in more detail the structure and approach for Services Division .
19 The Norwegians choose a long ridge walk to go back to the camp and by the time they have arrived , Tony and I have decided to take the kayaks out on to the Ocean .
20 I have attempted to take the possibilities and practice of engineering to absurd lengths .
21 I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it .
22 And you 'd got to take a knife , in one hand paper in the other paper in the other for business . .
23 I know but in April you 've got to take a chance .
24 You 've got to take the way her
25 But you 've got to take the parcel off me ! ’
26 You 've got to take the whole down .
27 Well well the thing about it I suppose is that erm er then you 've got to take the exam have n't you ?
28 at one time you could of done , but now , you 've got to take the guards off
29 If you 're gon na do something radical and change the way that we 're going to look after children you 've got to take the people with you .
30 you 've got to take the speakers out the front
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