Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun has taken no orders for the Model 52 and 54 , originally due this quarter and next quarter respectively , and told securities analysts each would be off a quarter . |
| 2 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 3 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 4 | Now the weather has taken a turn for the worse we realise we need to heat it . |
| 5 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 6 | Your boy could have taken the dive for the Mahoney kill . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister also feels that having taken the flak for the longest recession since the war , Mr Lamont is entitled to receive the laurels when the predicted recovery begins . |
| 8 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 9 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 10 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 11 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
| 12 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 13 | In fact , he said , since the treaty was negotiated , the outlook for European economies had taken a turn for the worse and national problems now loomed large on the domestic agenda , causing people 's perceptions about the treaty to change . |
| 14 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 15 | Life had taken a turn for the better . |
| 16 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 17 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 18 | But this morning all that had been forgotten because the budgerigar had taken a turn for the worse . |
| 19 | She sat in the front room of her house ( Arcadia Villas , Bed and Breakfast ) pouring tea for the wickedly handsome young man on the sofa , who had taken a room for the entire run of the pantomime . |
| 20 | On a range of third-world issues their policies have taken a turn for the better and are broadly the same as those of Labour — support for the Palestinians , dialogue with the ANC , endorsement of the ‘ safe haven ’ for the Kurds . |