Example sentences of "have take [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his day he has taken on the big guns of industry , commercialised culture and of whole countries ( who can easily forget his devastating portrait of Mrs Thatcher and the fawning Saatchi brothers ? ) . |
| 2 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 3 | ‘ He has taken up the priestly tasks of his father , ’ she says . |
| 4 | What Butthole Surfers have done , what made and makes them so crucial , is that they 've taken on the sonic possibilities bequeathed still unexplored and underdeveloped by acid rock but have jettisoned many of the disabling attitudes that originally trammelled that music — sophistication , expertise , the counter-cultural impulse to edify . |
| 5 | Hitler had taken on the mysterious Soviets , but why had he chosen to invade Russia and not the British Isles ? |
| 6 | Humans were still doing these jobs : the robots had taken over the skilled elements of the task . |
| 7 | Most of the city was aflame , and bitter fighting had taken over the downtown suburbs . |
| 8 | The explosions were now occurring in the area they had just evacuated , probably inflicting casualties on the British troops who had taken over the German trenches . |
| 9 | There was the young woman and her baby who had moved into the space above the coach-house , and there was the noisy couple from Luton who had taken over the empty servants ' quarters up the back stairs . |
| 10 | Thorns ( 1968 ) , from empirical work in Nottinghamshire , defined three types of village : first , villages with an established pattern of stratification based on the traditional rural economy or squirearchy ; second , villages in a state of transition ; and third , re-established villages where professional newcomers have taken over the dominant roles . |
| 11 | people have generally liked the campaign and have taken out the desired messages . |
| 12 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |