Example sentences of "and [pron] have take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was carrying wall units and I 'd taken fourteen wall units one after another up two flights of stairs . |
| 2 | to take cough and things like , and I nearly died the other night , I 'd taken one and I 'd taken some of this cough , |
| 3 | Rebutting suggestions that Scottish Liberal Democrat MPs would baulk at losing the opportunity for a Scottish Assembly , he added : ‘ My colleagues and I have taken this decision jointly and collectively . |
| 4 | I have now had the opportunity to study that judgment and I have taken further legal advice . |
| 5 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 6 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 7 | And you 've taken all the furniture out ? |
| 8 | And you have to take three the day before |
| 9 | The effect wears off , and you have to take another . " |
| 10 | One , a comparison of the costs in similar authorities , and we 've taken those that are in your audit family group from the Audit Commission , erm , and those are shown in appendix one , and a comparison of costs as to what we are currently paying to buy places for people for residential care of the elderly in the independent sector . |
| 11 | We have played in numerous county and Test games on a variety of grounds throughout the world and we have taken hundreds of wickets on all different types of surfaces . |
| 12 | The thousands of groups and organisations are as diverse as the colours of the rainbow , and they have taken this natural phenomenon as the New Age symbol . |
| 13 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
| 14 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 15 | I had said , in revulsion at the intimacy his words implied , that he could do what he liked , I did n't care ; and he had taken this as evidence of a previously unsuspected sophistication in me . |
| 16 | a proper one , hi Holly , alright love , so I went , left it and then I went called back last night after college and he said oh I have n't done it yet come on he said we 'll whiz it on the band saw , put it on the band saw and he 'd taken two nails out that you could n't see you know the , the old stamped cast iron ones , the ends had snapped off |
| 17 | And he 'd taken some alcohol either just before , or with his meal . |
| 18 | And it 's taken that length of time to break down the seventy or eighty year barriers that are in existence between workers and management . |
| 19 | And it 's taken all this time , it 's gone to court and all the rest of it , and they have n't got a case . |
| 20 | And it 's taken all this time to come round . |
| 21 | Lawrence added : ‘ We have played five games against First Division sides this season and it has taken extra time in the fifth for us to be defeated . |
| 22 | ‘ There are things that are n't quite right with Welsh rugby ’ , Ryan had said — a euphemism if ever there was one , and it has taken all these years even to begin to rectify them . |