Example sentences of "[pron] have take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
| 2 | ‘ The receptionist at the hotel could have told you that I 'd taken a taxi to Prague railway station , ’ she offered . |
| 3 | I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them . |
| 5 | I 'd taken a box of medication I was on at the time — drops I needed for my eyes , my asthma inhalant and things like that . |
| 6 | I do n't think I 'd taken a breath from when he took his stance until the ball finished up on the green . |
| 7 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 8 | I 'd taken a lot , but at the end of the day I only had a set of photographs that everybody else had — a load of people on a march . |
| 9 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 10 | Had I wanted to do something in astronomy , which I did actually want to do because I 'd taken an interest in it , in fact I would not have thought of this type of molecule . |
| 11 | ‘ I had to take a message to these ’ — she almost said gentlemen — ‘ to Mrs Felton about her youngest son ; he 's in hospital . ’ |
| 12 | I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol . |
| 13 | ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off . |
| 14 | that was at four o'clock , I had to take a tablet . |
| 15 | Some of it got into the car and irritated my eyes : I had to take a hand off the steering wheel to rub them and it was almost wrenched out of my grasp as the car lurched into a hole in the road . |
| 16 | It was only a four-seater plane , though , and in the end there was n't enough room for me , so I had to take a bus from Birmingham up to Dundee . |
| 17 | I had to take a breather and a hoarse croak escaped me . |
| 18 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 19 | I had to take a lot of oddments as well , like the marble . |
| 20 | So I had to take an eye test , I remember . |
| 21 | I had taken a couple of slices of bread up the tree with me , with the intention of feeding small pieces of pinched flake into their midst to see if they would accept them . |
| 22 | I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house . |
| 23 | I had taken a letter of introduction from my own bench and from the Magistrates Association . |
| 24 | I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess . |
| 25 | I had seen it when I had taken a detour from Arequipa into the Colca , reputedly twice as deep as the Grand Canyon . |
| 26 | But I think they recognise that I 'm not trying to exploit the Broads to line my pocket , and that I 've taken a bit of care . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've taken a bearing on the monastery and radar station on Mount Elias there . |
| 28 | I 've taken a look at three big names in DOS word processing — WordStar 7 , WordPerfect 5.1 and Q&A 4 — to see what they have to offer in comparison with their much-hyped Windows brethren . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've taken a stand . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've taken a day off and I 've changed my shift . ’ |