Example sentences of "he [vb mod] have taken a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
2 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
3 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
4 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
5 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
6 | He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour . |
7 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
8 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |