Example sentences of "[pers pn] have taken [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've taken so long to get a letter written to you . |
| 2 | When not being a mother or supportive wife , she has taken on numerous appointments in areas that interest her . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , what constitutes reasonable time is n't clearly defined under British law , and if a court thinks you 've taken too long to register your complaint , you may not have a case . |
| 4 | Of course , Matey was not best pleased that she had taken so long to come home — or so McAllister thought when the older woman came towards them after Dr Neil had let them both in . |
| 5 | You have taken away innocent men . |
| 6 | You have taken up American citizenship . |
| 7 | Try to identify what pro-active action you have taken over recent weeks . |
| 8 | It was also how he 'd overheard me and Kenny the barman talking and drawn his own paranoid conclusions which had led to both me and Kenny wishing we 'd taken out medical insurance . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry we 've taken so long to get round to you , Mrs Grogan , but we 've been very busy . |
| 10 | ‘ In the past we have taken too miserable a view of food , now we must say there is a glorious array of foreign cuisines which are associated with amazingly low risks to health . |
| 11 | Yeah they 've taken on extra staff |
| 12 | They had taken on extra teaching staff . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had taken too long to get together . |
| 14 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 15 | Dakers , who was born in Newcastle but now lives in Sydney , where he has taken out Australian citizenship , was given a further three months to run concurrently after admitting the three handling charges . |
| 16 | It has taken too long to persuade the police that racial attacks even exist for the press to adopt some absurd pretence to being colour-blind now . |
| 17 | I am sorry it has taken so long to send you a copy and return your slides . |
| 18 | Many of us may wonder why it has taken so long to achieve the last two objectives , but I am delighted that the proposal is now to go ahead . |
| 19 | The MPs called on health boards to act quickly to ensure adequate cover in a number of important related areas and said : ‘ We are concerned that it has taken so long to achieve such important improvements in the balance of medical staffing . ’ |
| 20 | In Normandy , that part of France which he had made peculiarly his , he had taken over everyday government , now exercised in his name by men appointed by him . |
| 21 | And if Stavanger had left intending to be away for months he had taken remarkably little with him in the way of clothes . |
| 22 | I 'd like to know why it 's taken so long for this union to work again er , with the regulations in public services . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry that it 's taken so long . |
| 24 | And it 's taken that long for Dave to get his arse in gear and he 's a so slow . |