Example sentences of "he have take [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life . |
| 2 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 3 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 4 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 5 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 6 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 7 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 8 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 9 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 10 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 11 | ‘ He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so . |
| 12 | And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar . |
| 13 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 14 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 15 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 16 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 17 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 18 | Before she realised what he was intending he 'd taken the crutch from her and propped it out of reach . |
| 19 | Moved by the verdict , Mr Donnellan 's mother said she was proud he 'd taken the case to the police in order to clear himself . |
| 20 | The evening had commenced at a restaurant where Rune had introduced her to koldt bord , the pan-Scandinavian cold buffet-style spread , while he 'd taken the opportunity of finding out more details about Suzie , including her appearance . |
| 21 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 22 | With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board . |
| 23 | How would he have taken the news of this sneaky , hole-in-the-corner business ? |
| 24 | The feeling persisted and suddenly , although he knew he was being ridiculous , he felt he had to take a ride into Mansfield to have a look at the site where the old Empire Theatre had once stood . |
| 25 | He had to take a number of decisions in the field of immigration and deportation , which infuriated libertarians . |
| 26 | He had to take a boat to Miami , and that 's why he give me the keys to Starkisser . |
| 27 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 28 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 29 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 30 | Once , as a guest of the Hacketts , he had taken a stroll through the rose garden with Jessica Hackett . |