Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even without Vietnam Western European nations would have taken a more independent line from America . |
| 2 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 3 | But now it looked as if her job might have taken a different turn . |
| 4 | Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent . |
| 5 | Aeons ago , the waters must have taken a different path and the men who discovered the cave had chipped away the stalagmites to make a passage into the gallery beyond , the gallery where Melissa and Fernand now stood . |
| 6 | A real thief would have taken a screwdriver and levered off the clasps . |
| 7 | And Person X could have taken a shot at you . ’ |
| 8 | The demands of beating the Belgian champions with only ten men must have taken a physical toll of Smith 's side . |
| 9 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 10 | Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood . |
| 11 | On the other hand , the staff felt that the project would have taken a different form and provoked different responses from teachers if an outsider had been present at meetings . |
| 12 | His trip should have taken a month . |
| 13 | These are not dramatic changes , but one might have hoped that Britain 's first woman Prime Minister would have taken a tougher line on women 's pay . |