Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] have take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Bella must have taken the receiver . |
| 2 | Larne should have taken the lead two minutes later when a right wing cross from Fay sailed over Beck but McCourt , running in at the back post , somehow managed to steer his header wide . |
| 3 | The defence claimed Mrs Armstrong could have taken the poison herself and committed suicide . |
| 4 | Hindhead should have taken the lead when Frampton 's cross was misjudged by Wagstaff in front of a gaping goal . |
| 5 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 6 | The resulting shot , taken by Pascal would have taken the goalkeeper to the back of the net as well had he got near to it . |
| 7 | Meryl will have to take the knocks like everybody else . ’ |
| 8 | Ipswich could have taken the lead as early as the second minute , when Steve Whitton picked up a poor clearance by Nigel Spink and cracked a drive just wide from 25 yards . |
| 9 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 10 | If anything goes wrong , people will ask if Dr Motha should have taken the risk . ’ |
| 11 | I simply say that it is fairly obvious that Britain could have taken the lead in clean coal technology . |
| 12 | Without that perception , the US would have taken the sanctions route alone , and the outcome of the crisis would have been very different . |
| 13 | I figured that Barry must have taken the duck for cover back in the alleyway . |
| 14 | A more dynamic and far-sighted monarch than Nicholas could have taken the initiative himself , drawn upon generations of loyalty to God 's anointed , forced through reforms to avert revolution , and opened the way to liberal evolution . |
| 15 | Eochaid would have taken the monks with him for safety , and those of Muthill as well . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure to what extent we in Lincolnshire will have to take the Local Government Staff Commission seriously . |
| 17 | Watford had the best of the early exchanges , but Leeds should have taken the lead after 16 minutes . |
| 18 | He was sufficiently well-informed to be able to declare that it was a scandal that the town lacked any kind of orchestra , whereas Clara would have taken the lack of it as a simple act of God . |
| 19 | It is unlikely that Eliot would have taken the trouble to defend Kipling against the charge of race superiority if he had believed in it himself . |