Example sentences of "[pron] have to take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to take each day as it comes . |
| 2 | On the other hand , I am a girl who likes a bit of old-fashioned interest taken in her , and I do get cheesed when I have to take second place , especially when it 's to a dead widow of seventy-odd … ’ |
| 3 | Still I suppose I have to take second place to your work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have to take this chance so that come Poland in September the manager 's got a difficult choice . ’ |
| 5 | Once , as he sat cross-legged on his mattress reading , deep in thought , I grabbed both his ankles , and yanked his legs , saying , ‘ Excuse me , but I have to take this wheelbarrow out to the garden . ’ |
| 6 | She was violently attacked in the classroom by an 11 -year-old pupil and suffered injuries so severe that she had to take early retirement . |
| 7 | While we were bad off she had to take that job , my eldest daughter . |
| 8 | She had to take another look . |
| 9 | Money also serves to bribe the officials who have to take this decision . |
| 10 | Erm , er , and he got a ticket , and he had to , you know , you have to take this ticket to the Police Station for not having worn his seat-belt . |
| 11 | , that oh dear , you have to take this stuff with water it says , it is a horror one so I bought us some chocolate eclairs , have you got them ? |
| 12 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 13 | We felt we had to take direct action . |
| 14 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 15 | We have to take great care to select the visual environment so that its effect can be measured . |
| 16 | ‘ We have received £350 from the district council , and hopefully £350 will come from the county council , but I think we have to take each stage as it arises . ’ |
| 17 | If we want studies of sex difference to work towards our liberation rather than perpetuating our subordination , we have to take this problem very seriously . |
| 18 | I believe we have to take this aspect of the Spirit very seriously today . |
| 19 | Yes , I think we have to take any situation like this , not just the major ones like war , but any situation that we come across and use it as a real opportunity for learning , and maybe for adults to be able to do the things that they did n't do when they were children , which is why now we often respond as child in these situations . |
| 20 | We have to take more time to explain clearly what they are getting and paying for . ’ |
| 21 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 22 | His ‘ devils ’ prepare for him notes of his material but once he has gone into court he has to take entire responsibility on his own shoulders . ’ |
| 23 | As he has to take another coach , it means we can transport only two or three boxers to shows . |
| 24 | ‘ It does n't matter who you are , it has to take that period of time . |
| 25 | Does it have to take another oil disaster like the Braer tanker , before Britain acts ? |
| 26 | He rolled a little closer on the big feather mattress in the big brass bedstead , and put his arms round her — carefully , because he had to take special care of Ruth now . |
| 27 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 28 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |