Example sentences of "have [adv] take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are internal disputes which are resolved by a visitor who is not a lawyer himself and has not taken legal advice . |
| 2 | On LIFFE the 50% cross allows the broker/dealer to pre-match half the order , provided he has not taken one side of the cross himself , and he has filled the other half of the order in the pit . |
| 3 | But fortunately his own cast has not taken such advice and under the musical direction of Marius Constant the singers soar above the lugubrious libretto based on Maeterlinck 's play . |
| 4 | An official has just to take one look , and know she 'll give in at once . |
| 5 | It has also taken full control of its Spanish pharmaceuticals business , ICI-Farma , announced a £150million investment in a Taiwanese chemicals plant making the raw material for polyester fibre and trimmed its UK fertiliser business . |
| 6 | We focused on this in the previous chapter , and indeed as we shall see organisational analysis has increasingly taken serious notice of factors which lie outside the structure of formal authority . |
| 7 | If you 've finished with your face you 'd better take that dog out . ’ |
| 8 | You 'd better take that brolly with you . |
| 9 | A farmer might tell one of his workmen : ‘ You 'd better take that dutfin [ bridle ] to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 10 | I , I 'd just taken this thing |
| 11 | It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded . |
| 12 | Third was the Dublin City Harrier Mary Brayley , who is based in Cambridge and is a familiar face at Ballycotton , having previously taken second place in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 13 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 14 | Previously , Legal & General had only taken realised investment appreciation to p&l account as investment return . |
| 15 | The NSA had naturally taken enormous trouble to keep Minaret and Shamrock secret since they were quite illegal even though they had the tacit approval of President Nixon , another Henry II Syndrome casualty ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 16 | Her father had been a tight-lipped rather unloving man who had apparently taken little interest in Doreen . |
| 17 | Ambulance crews had already taken one patient from the pile-up , on the Uxbridge Road in Slough , Berkshire , to the town 's Wexham Park Hospital . |
| 18 | It would be the ultimate in the corruption of a people by paternal kindliness — a corruption that had already taken great hold in the country . |
| 19 | When the Christian Brethren movement and the Catholic Apostolic Church emerged in Britain in the 1830s and the Millerites in New England waited for the return of Christ in the 1840s , adventism had already taken firm root in evangelicalism ( where it has remained ever since ) . |
| 20 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 21 | Cripps had already taken this view of the New Progressive Group . |
| 22 | However , on 30 June we were told in response to inquiries by the court that she had not taken solid food since 21 June and that , although she had maintained a fluid intake of 12 cups of tea a day , her weight had dropped from 39 kg. on 16 June to 35.1 kg. on 30 June . |
| 23 | A brother delivered up to death indeed , if another man had not taken that road before him . |
| 24 | The mother of one of the teenage victims said that ‘ although many Press reports had treated the case as a racial attack , the court had not taken that attitude and she felt that was correct ’ . |
| 25 | On Nov. 6 preliminary results showed that 87 per cent of those eligible had acquired citizenship , but 370,000 people who had not taken Lithuanian citizenship effectively became stateless or foreign citizens ; dual citizenship had not been permitted . |
| 26 | This would affect the estimated 26,000,000 Russians in other Soviet and former Soviet republics by extending rights to those who had not taken local citizenship . |
| 27 | But she told me she would have been perfectly content if they had not taken this course . |
| 28 | Very pleased to have yours and as I said in my last it 's your money , God has been very kind to you and you must n't fly up in the face of his kindness and I wish you had not taken this step , your Uncle Steve says property 's more trouble than it 's worth . |
| 29 | In 1971 , the Criminal Injuries to Property Compensation Act ( Northern Ireland ) enabled the government to refuse to pay compensation for bomb damage if the owners had not taken satisfactory security precautions . |
| 30 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |