Example sentences of "[pers pn] have take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may well be wondering why I have taken such pains to show that the Spirit of God , his active intervention on the human scene which took such varied forms in the Old Testament , became concentrated in the person of Jesus the Messiah , and then was poured out by him upon the messianic community . |
| 2 | ‘ I have taken great pains to stress that aspect in the sometimes heated discussions , ’ he said , adding he was not enthusiastic about the original proposals and still had serious reservations . |
| 3 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 4 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Poise was going to be the order of the day — poise and sophistication ; she had taken great care to look the part , now all she had to do was feel that way too . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 9 | We have to take great care to select the visual environment so that its effect can be measured . |
| 10 | We have to take more time to explain clearly what they are getting and paying for . ’ |
| 11 | We have taken great care to make sure that the foods recommended on the diet are all widely available , little influenced by seasonal variations . |
| 12 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 13 | We have taken significant steps to deal with that problem . |
| 14 | ‘ We have taken single issue campaigning beyond the text book by forcing the Government to take responsibility itself , ’ Ann Winterton , Conservative MP for Congleton and secretary of the all-party parliamentary Pro-Life Group , said . |
| 15 | Chief executive Frank Burns said : ‘ We would have had to spend 50pc of the cost on fire precautions in any case , so we have taken this opportunity to provide what is the most important building in Wirral with an entrance that gives patients , staff and visitors a welcoming and efficient first impression . ’ |
| 16 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 17 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 18 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 19 | Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible . |
| 20 | Very broadly stated , it is a duty to treat the trespasser with ordinary humanity … the occupier is not at fault if he has done as much as is required of him , if he has taken reasonable steps to deter the trespasser from entering or remaining on the premises , or part of the premises , in which he will encounter a dangerous situation . |
| 21 | He has taken three characters to make the basis of this chapter . |
| 22 | It has taken 13 years to come to this position . |
| 23 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 24 | They do n't realise that it has taken many years to bring the town up to the standard it is now . |
| 25 | , the company 's technical manager , said : ‘ It has taken two years to reach the position we are now in . |
| 26 | Rule 5 — 30(1) provides that a firm must not recommend a transaction to a private customer or act as a discretionary manager unless it has taken reasonable steps to enable the private customer to understand the nature of the risks involved . |
| 27 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 28 | It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve these abilities , longer , perhaps , than it has taken human beings to evolve from fish . |
| 29 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 30 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |