Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 2 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 3 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 4 | Rebutting suggestions that Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs would baulk at losing the opportunity for a Scottish Assembly , he added : ‘ My colleagues and I have taken this decision jointly and collectively . |
| 5 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 6 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 7 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 8 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 9 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 10 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
| 11 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 12 | Once , as he sat cross-legged on his mattress reading , deep in thought , I grabbed both his ankles , and yanked his legs , saying , ‘ Excuse me , but I have to take this wheelbarrow out to the garden . ’ |
| 13 | " But I have to take calculated risks sometimes . |
| 14 | But he had taken enormous risks . |
| 15 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 16 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
| 17 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |
| 18 | But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows . |
| 19 | It was only 10 years ago that the prize-money was less than £80,000 , but it has taken giant strides forward and the future looks even brighter . |
| 20 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 21 | An exact replica of one of them is being shipped to Armenia , right down to blackboards and chalk , but it 's taken top level agreement between Mr Gorbachev and Mrs Thatcher to make it happen . |