Example sentences of "[vb mod] have take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daalny had acted , after all ; she must have taken the second key during Vespers , from the nail where at noon she had watched the porter hang the first one , but she had had to wait for near-darkness before using it . |
| 2 | The effort of talking after those months in silence and darkness must have taken the little strength she had . |
| 3 | Well , Moscavisi 's argument , and I must say , I agree with him , is that they tended to be denigrated by both groups who might have taken the biggest interest in them . |
| 4 | The desert was an unforgiving place , but their training had equipped them to cope , when at any time they could have taken the easy way out and walked down to the coast road to surrender . |
| 5 | This could have taken the burning core through the concrete base of the reactor into the ground , a version of what is colloquially described as the ‘ China syndrome ’ . |
| 6 | Option ( b ) could have taken the following forms : ( i ) an attack on the forces/territory of those seeking to obstruct free navigation ; ( ii ) escort activity to defend merchant shipping seeking to exercise the right to free navigation ; and ( iii ) clearing wreckage or mines endangering free passage through Gulf waterways like the Strait of Hormuz . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 8 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 9 | ‘ The old fuel cells were self supporting , ’ explained Dick 's mechanic , Nick Quint , ‘ but to work on them , one would have to take the entire cell out of the fuselage . |
| 10 | The most open arrangement was to inform a rich suitor that if he wanted a date , he would have to take the whole troupe out . |
| 11 | Or or you would have to take the whole thing off again . |
| 12 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 13 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 14 | More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was . |
| 15 | I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser . |
| 16 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 17 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 19 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 20 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 21 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 22 | A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies . |
| 23 | Each marketing response will have to take the relevant contingencies into account , so that ( to use the jargon ) it is situationally relevant . |
| 24 | During the last war Bert was asked if lie had received his " Calling up papers " , his reply was " They will have to take the old horse as well " . |
| 25 | But one will have taken the first step , and the second and the third , towards providing readers with pleasant entertainment . |