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Example sentences of "have take [art] [adj] [noun] out " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A FIERCE price war in the bread market has taken a hefty bite out of profits at Sunblest to Silver Spoon sugar giant Associated British Foods .
2	THE UK recession has taken a giant bite out of McDonalds , the American burger chain .
3	THE recession has taken a large bite out of profits at Daily Mail Trust , parent of the Daily Mail , Mail on Sunday and the Evening Standard .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	Many of them were feeling distinctly insecure at having taken the first step out of the closet and they kept the escape route in sight at all times .
7	‘ 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 .
8	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 .
9	It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message .
10	So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’