Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] to take [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are very fortunate that Peggy Spencer has agreed to take the afternoon herself . |
| 2 | Tennis Courts The president of the tennis club has decided to take no action till next session . |
| 3 | Tennis Courts The president of the tennis club has decided to take no action till next session . |
| 4 | Because of problems in finding a theatre in the West End , Henry Sherek had decided to take The Cocktail Party to New York rather than to London ; this was a calculated gamble on Eliot 's fame — to see , as it were , if the Nobel Prize would run on Broadway . |
| 5 | Yet by the end of 1690 most prominent laymen and clergy had come to take the oaths to the new regime , and only a tiny minority persisted as Jacobites or Nonjurors . |
| 6 | Dolly 's limbs lay strewn about the carpet but Dolly 's assailant had gone to take a nap and slept . |
| 7 | David Coverdale and Jimmy Page are a pair Belfast fans have wanted to take a look at in the flesh for a while . |
| 8 | We talked of the hard times after Independence , of how the old princess had refused to take the charity of the government . |
| 9 | Housing associations have begun to take an interest in BES projects . |
| 10 | ‘ How long does it take a conifer to grow to a size where it can be used ? ’ she asked hastily , since her last remark had threatened to take the discussion off course . |
| 11 | Pc Court had threatened to take the force to an industrial tribunal last year alleging sexual discrimination in a case supported by the Police Federation , but Mr Newing agreed she had been disadvantaged after the arbitration service ACAS was brought in . |
| 12 | ‘ Ace , Benny , ’ Petion called out as he entered , ‘ the Colonel has decided to take a force to the cemetery . |
| 13 | Indeed the European parliamentary resolution is specific on that point and I believe the boundary commission has failed to take the opportunity to exercise that requirement . |
| 14 | But these reactions are a later development when anger has begun to take the system over and commandeer all its ways of expressing displeasure . |
| 15 | In the past Linfield have declined to take a case to the independent tribunal for they felt it was more appropriate for clubs to settle any dispute between themselves . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend is right : he has raised one of the areas in which Britain has tried to take a lead in the discussions in the Community . |
| 17 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
| 18 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 19 | The Government have failed to take the opportunities before them . |
| 20 | Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening . |
| 21 | It felt like my stomach had decided to take a sabbatical ; all that food was just sitting there , unprocessed , locked in , slopping around and making me feel horrible . |
| 22 | Project number 1 on the first list , which derived from the first reconnaissance , was to ‘ Develop a worldwide communications system ’ For various reasons the project was not taken forward but Save The Children have continued to take the view that good communications , within the Field and between Field and HQ , is of the highest priority . |
| 23 | But as Kerry bade her goodnight Lisa had decided to take the sketches home and finish them there . |
| 24 | These students had opted to take the stylistics course as part of the Language " track " of their degree ; all were well motivated and their work in the first and second years had revealed that all had demonstrable ability for language study . |
| 25 | Also in the US , two unnamed systems integrators have agreed to take the notebook on-board — they 'll also be announced in a few weeks ' time . |
| 26 | ‘ Count de Sciorto has decided to take the wraps off at last , has he ? ’ |
| 27 | The signing of its charter by representatives of 144 electric utilities with working nuclear power stations was a recognition that the time had come to take the secrecy out of nuclear power and prove that there was a worldwide interest in co-operation and information exchange . |
| 28 | After Mrs Bottomley had promised to take the matter up with John Major she was able to unveil a plaque to mark the opening . |
| 29 | The result has been that sea walls have had to take the brunt of the power of waves and currents at high tide , which erodes them and requires rebuilding on an ever larger scale . |