Example sentences of "to have take [adj] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He was detained in Newgate prison in Dublin in 1797 , but he appears to have taken little part in the 1798 rebellion and was not among the state prisoners incarcerated after its suppression . |
2 | Senior members of the SDLP are believed to have taken great exception to the criticism . |
3 | President Desmond Hoyte was reported to have accepted the resignation " reluctantly " , and to have taken temporary charge of the Foreign Affairs portfolio . |
4 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
5 | It seems to have taken several months for the message to sink in that here was plenty to worry about , with deep implications for the inhabitants of planet Earth . |
6 | The definitions in the Regulations appeared to have taken full advantage of the enabling power and did not exclude any class of payer . |