Example sentences of "he have taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 2 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 3 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 4 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 5 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 6 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 7 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 8 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 9 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 10 | He later admitted he 'd taken a tablet supplied by another pupil . |
| 11 | He 'd taken a chance and he 'd been found out . |
| 12 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 13 | ‘ Better ? ’ she said when he 'd taken a couple of swallows , and he managed to nod again . |
| 14 | Up to the fifth floor , then walk down to the third , where he 'd taken a couple of rooms . |
| 15 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 16 | He had taken a pace or two when something tugged at the shoulder of his coat . |
| 17 | He felt as he had in Oxford , the first time he had taken a girl out with a packet of French letters in his wallet . |
| 18 | One of these missing persons was still lying ( lying still , rather ! ) in the police mortuary in St Aldate 's ; the other person , with Morse 's full permission , had that afternoon departed by train for London , not stopping on this occasion ( as he had claimed to have stopped earlier ) at Didcot Parkway , but travelling straight through — past Reading , Maidenhead , Slough — to Paddington , whence he had taken a taxi to the Tour Company HQ in Belgravia in order to discuss the last wishes and the last rites of his erstwhile legal spouse , Mrs Laura Mary Stratton . |
| 19 | The Mason came down out of his cart wearing God 's Creation robe because he had taken a fancy to its white ermine collar and the cabalistic sun , moon and stars embroidered front and back . |
| 20 | Once , as a guest of the Hacketts , he had taken a stroll through the rose garden with Jessica Hackett . |
| 21 | He had taken a sheet of writing paper from the desk and used it to make notes during the meeting . |
| 22 | He had taken a container of 800 barbiturates from his pharmacy and 136 tablets were later recovered . |
| 23 | He had taken a bottle of cough mixture with him but it had n't helped much . |
| 24 | He had felt the power of his position when he had taken a bottle to the room of any major and propositioned for information on the talk in the mess when he , the KGB 's ears , was not present . |
| 25 | I was terrified that , while he had taken a branch off the piste towards the town , I might now be heading towards Mali , a waterless eight hundred miles away . |
| 26 | He had taken a sample of blood from the plump flaccid arm , feeling for the vein as carefully as if she could still flinch at the needle 's prick . |
| 27 | He had taken a phone call from Gabriel , half wishing it was Rose Hilaire , but wanting to feel loyal to Gaby . |
| 28 | He had taken a couple of square inches of rock cocaine from wherever he had hidden his supply and was chopping it with his knife on to Trent 's shaving mirror . |
| 29 | He had taken a couple of tablets of synthesized dope . |
| 30 | It was as though he had taken a drug , not one to make him hallucinate but one to end hallucination . |