Example sentences of "and [pron] have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |