Example sentences of "[pers pn] have take a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | " You have to spend some time on the practice tee , and you have to take a different approach every day . |
| 32 | When you have taken a good look around , return to the lane , and choose another gate . |
| 33 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 34 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Obviously we 've taken a close look at Oddbins , ’ says Ann Tonk , standing in Victoria Wine 's smartly re-fitted ‘ Family Group 1 ’ store in London 's Hampstead High Street . |
| 36 | We 've taken a selected range of apartments in and around Malia , where you 'll be welcome to mix with the crowd and enjoy all of the facilities and club activities . |
| 37 | But now we 've taken a short cut through the getting-to-know-you games . |
| 38 | Our shares plummeted because the City felt we had taken a great risk . |
| 39 | One of them gesticulated to us and , using harsh , staccato Russian ( which neither of us understood ) and rather violent stabs into the air , made it very clear that we had taken a dangerous route over the ice and that we were very stupid indeed . |
| 40 | The ministers claim we have to take a different approach from the Poles or Hungarians but they do not say in what way different . |
| 41 | However , the Select Committee report is based on clean coal technology , on which we have taken a great deal of evidence from expert witnesses . |
| 42 | A North Korean Foreign Ministry statement on Sept. 17 said : " In the situation in which the attempt to perpetuate and legalize the nation 's and people 's division by taking advantage of international leverage on entry into the UN has recently become clear , we have taken a decisive step to enter the UN in order to prevent such grave consequences arising , " adding that North Korea had not changed its policy on reunification . |
| 43 | We have taken a new initiative , brand new initiative , we 've set up a whole new scheme doing this that and the other da da da , and in a sort of a tail end , |
| 44 | We have taken a considerable number of far-reaching measures in association with the Confederation of British Industry to encourage precisely that course . |
| 45 | I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere , and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us . |
| 46 | On the basis that a lot of the big houses that were doing holiday accommodation and so on , er have have already been converted and this is our experience , so on that basis we have taken a reduced figure for conversions and that is basically the reasoning behind it . |
| 47 | We have taken a careful look at this application and feel that we must now draw it to your attention . |
| 48 | Perhaps as a result of his unpopularity , speculation about him has taken a new turn . |
| 49 | Aberdeen arrived back from Turin this afternoon , knowing they 'd taken a major step towards the quarter finals of the Cup Winners Cup . |
| 50 | We crossed several large meadows before working along steep , loose flanks , rich with flowers but not a route for mules , wherever they were — they had taken a different line . |
| 51 | The closed blades were not smeared with blood , and nothing about the scissors screamed out that they had taken a human life . |
| 52 | Their circumstances had changed : Mr Singh had a full-time job , they had taken a big step and purchased their council house and Mrs Singh now felt that she needed permanent work herself . |
| 53 | The feminists thought the whole structure was rotten , but they had taken a particular dislike to Pilger . |
| 54 | They have taken a major stake in Crane Holdings . |
| 55 | As well as setting up a register the Act will eventually make it illegal for people to handle food until they have taken a basic food hygiene certificate . |
| 56 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 57 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 58 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 59 | ‘ He has taken a marked fancy to you , my dear , ’ pursued the other . |
| 60 | He has taken a marked fancy to my expectations , she might have said . |