Example sentences of "[modal v] have take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have taken him when he sent those two against you , Khan . ’ |
| 3 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 4 | That taunting , dismissive tone must have taken him years to perfect , she thought irritably . |
| 5 | I ca n't hold it 's killing my back you 'll have to take him ! |
| 6 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 7 | I could have taken him to task about how he was defining ‘ agree ’ and ‘ honest ’ , but just somehow did n't . |
| 8 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 9 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 10 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 11 | I could have taken him if he 's on the public highway , I could have taken him to the police station . |
| 12 | Just the hint of a vengeful smile accompanied the massage that we could n't just walk off with that there dog — we 'd have to take him to the parcels office and sign for him . |
| 13 | If they 'd got him badly wounded , they 'd have taken him away , would n't they ? ’ |
| 14 | On sight , she knew she would have to take him down . |
| 15 | It looked as if we would have to take him out but an older Asian boy came and took him away , and he went quite confidently . |
| 16 | In the end Molly would have to take him . |
| 17 | Given a choice , you would have taken him rather than Timothy Hutton for a solicitor . |
| 18 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
| 19 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 20 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
| 21 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 22 | This would have taken him into working-class black dance-halls , bars , churches : more generally , by extension , into the whole network of subterranean currents beneath the bland surface of the metropolitan American musical mainstream . |
| 23 | Oh it 'll likely have been about Blair Gowrie or Pitlochry or some place , just anybody who would have taken him in . |
| 24 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 25 | He left the road at the hairpin bend which would have taken him up to Albert Terrace and followed the path through the kissing-gate to the moor . |
| 26 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 27 | ‘ If one of our boys was good enough to play and was not getting a chance with Yorkshire , then surely another county would have taken him . |