Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell ye , I was sorry I 'd taken the trouble . ’ |
| 2 | I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book . |
| 3 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Tempest said he was sorry to receive the news but glad he had taken the trouble to inquire . |
| 5 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 6 | It was difficult to make sure I had taken the right things but not too much and I found I could have done with less . |
| 7 | For those who 've taken the decision to turn their lives around prevention is n't always better than cure . |
| 8 | Ken hoped that the schism in the Church between those who had taken the oath of allegiance and those who had refused would eventually be settled by the deaths of the latter . |
| 9 | By that decade different religious and social elements had become prominent in antislavery from those who had taken the initiative in earlier years . |
| 10 | Those who have to take a further qualification in English should make an early application to the relevant authority . |
| 11 | The reported number of people known to have HIV only includes those who have taken a blood test , and is therefore only likely to be a small proportion of the total number infected . |
| 12 | Those who have taken a course in German or French as a foreign language will already have some formal knowledge of that language . |
| 13 | It is possible for those who have taken the CPE to complete the training contract before the Legal Practice Course , if the employer agrees . |
| 14 | And in doing that they have taken the first positive step towards solving it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps the others would blame me for deserting , I thought , but Captain Smollett would be pleased I had taken the Hispaniola , I was sure . |
| 17 | Well , really , how to make a cup of tea is like the same thing as making a cup of coffee first you have to take the kettle to the tap , turn the tap on and fill up the kettle , then take the kettle back to the ma , erm , where you got it from and plug it into the wa wall . |
| 18 | The pressure was becoming too much for him , and though at first they had taken the challenge with both hands , and had almost made a joke of it , now the months of confinement and running , running and confinement , the eternal hiding , were beginning to take their toll of his spirit . |
| 19 | Moved by the verdict , Mr Donnellan 's mother said she was proud he 'd taken the case to the police in order to clear himself . |
| 20 | The construction is , of course , that of the ordinary attributive adjective , the adjective which is the exponent in observable syntax of the subordinate property in the intensional structure : The essentials of the notation , for any who have taken the option of arriving at this point direct from the beginning of Section 1.2 , are as follows : The basic elements in constructing linguistic expressions are assumed to be two : E = entity notion ; and P = property notion The basic relations have these symbols : = = equation ; = qualification = assignment The direction of the arrow and the arrowhead indicates which is the major and which the subordinate item in the formula ; it does not refer to order of appearance in surface form . |
| 21 | On April 19 the EPRDF took the hydroelectric power station at Finchaa ( also in Welega province ) , and by April 24 it had taken the town of Ambo , 100 km west of Addis Ababa , although this area was retaken by government forces four days later . |