Example sentences of "[pers pn] have take a [adj -er] " in BNC.

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1 If she had taken a tougher line with them at once , they would have known where to stop .
2 Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ?
3 It has taken a closer look at what it pays and what it gets out of its Brussels El Dorado , and it is not happy .
4 Reebok believes that it has taken a further innovative step by eliminating much of the superfluous components so that now , the tennis shoe will consist of an estimated 12 separate components .
5 He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark .
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