Example sentences of "[vb mod] have take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was a fine display of irreligious pop art myself , but the local Scout Master must 've taken offence , for the Dog pack packed up and headed for The Robey , where they currently host their anti-establishment , multi-media club nights . |
| 2 | Erm , but er it 's , it 's quite wrong that pensioners and er , the poorest should have to take cuts again erm when there 's people on such high salaries . |
| 3 | It is difficult , however , to see why the directors should have to take account of the interests of the as yet unidentifiable persons who might acquire shares in the company at some future date . |
| 4 | She should have taken precautions against such a mishap . |
| 5 | They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up . |
| 6 | They should have taken account of all representations and consulted adequately . |
| 7 | She should have taken Clare up on her offer of going to work with her one day . |
| 8 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 9 | I should have taken notice . ’ |
| 10 | Both Stalin and Hitler should have taken note of the aesthetics . |
| 11 | The corks were tight enough to keep the wine in good condition for perhaps forty to fifty years , but it is understandable that after sixty years some evaporation should have taken place . |
| 12 | Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil . |
| 13 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 14 | We ought to ask ourselves why this disquieting inflation should have taken place ; we ought also to consider what causal relationship there is between ‘ artistic culture ’ and creativity . |
| 15 | There were certainly suggestions that more explanation should have been given and that more discussion should have taken place . |
| 16 | Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont . |
| 17 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 18 | And when she came home she said , Do you know what she said she must have taken ages she said to put that cord through that er beam , she said . |
| 19 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 20 | Bowes must have taken Nedham into God 's Gift to show him the place where the accident happened . |
| 21 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 22 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 26 | Over a lavish Christmas dinner which Katherine thought must have taken Cook weeks to prepare , Violette regaled them with tales of bizarre exploits . |
| 27 | The person applying must have taken responsibility for arranging the funeral . |
| 28 | All this must have taken shape before there were any houses on the scene . |
| 29 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |
| 30 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |