Example sentences of "[pron] have take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'd taken more trouble with economics I might have been more effective as Prime Minister . |
| 3 | Anyway , all that — and the Rogan Josh , which I 'd took real sweat over right down to serving it with iced bottles of Kingfisher lager and quarters of lime and rice fried with egg and to hell with the risk of salmonella — was before Billy Tuckett dropped in . |
| 4 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 5 | Since my episode with Moustaine during the first week of training , I had taken due care with my backside ; but others had n't got the point . |
| 6 | Apart from wanting the law or whatever to catch up with him ( which it did n't ) , I had taken little notice , and no interest , in John 's furtive and elaborate preparations for travel — the series of interviews with the Reverend Kreditor , for example . |
| 7 | I wished for the first time that I had taken that knife and turned it on Nour and let his blood . |
| 8 | If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites . |
| 9 | Bad industrial relations had been the curse of the country for as long as I had taken any interest in politics ; although the reform of trade union law was essential , further steps were also needed . |
| 10 | yeah , erm , I do n't quite know what to do about this , this is , I 've taken some stuff out , if I can slide it down the |
| 11 | I have n't really had a vacation , this is the first time I 've taken some time off and I barely got here ; just because of the pace of the world , especially last year . |
| 12 | Starting off with paragraph thirty three of P P G three , , erm you 'll see in my statement that I 've actually in seeking to address point A dealt with each of the conditions that P P G three er refers to , for which a new settlement should be contemplated , and you will see that I 've reached a conclusion that having regarded the unique circumstances of York , the Greater York new settlement does represent an appropriate and justified policy response , you 'll se also see my statement , I 've taken some comfort from the fact that the good practice guide that has been published by the department of the environment , has endorsed the approach that North Yorkshire County Council has taken towards the special circumstances of the Greater York area . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've taken another envelope : it 'll do for the next batch of typescript . ’ |
| 14 | I have to take each day as it comes . |
| 15 | 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 … ’ |
| 16 | Still I suppose I have to take second place to your work . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have to take this chance so that come Poland in September the manager 's got a difficult choice . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I can not comment any further , except to say that I have taken legal advice on this matter . ’ |
| 20 | I have taken that precaution . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I recommended the player through a contact , so I have taken some flak from my management team . |
| 22 | ‘ I have taken human life , ’ she cried . |
| 23 | I have taken this opportunity to point them out to the Minister and I hope that something good will come of it . |
| 24 | Rebutting suggestions that Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs would baulk at losing the opportunity for a Scottish Assembly , he added : ‘ My colleagues and I have taken this decision jointly and collectively . |
| 25 | ( I have taken this summary of the plaintiff 's argument from the judgment of Lord Donaldson M.R. , at p. 324h . ) |
| 26 | For all the absence of Bakerthink in the classroom , it would be misleading to suggest that nobody had taken any notice of the Education Reform Act . |
| 27 | Nobody had taken any notice of me so far , but I did not mind that . |
| 28 | It was the first time that many of the sales force had seen the new range , which had taken one year to develop and would be launched into the market place within the next few weeks . |
| 29 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 30 | The court held that the Convention did not ‘ supplant the application of the discovery provisions of the Federal Rules over foreign , Hague Convention State nationals , subject to in personam jurisdiction in a United States court ’ , and adopted most of the arguments deployed by earlier courts which had taken this view . |