Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh |
| 32 | But then avowed with a great deal of feeling , ‘ I sorely needed somebody 's help when , with daylight I returned to that hotel and discovered you 'd taken a train back to Mariánské Láznë ! ’ |
| 33 | I wish I 'd taken the money now ! finding I was pregnant scared me more than anything , because my sister Vanessa was also pregnant and saying to me , " I 'm pregnant — what am I going to do ? " |
| 34 | She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy . |
| 35 | They 'd taken the plug out of his boiler just the same and let off his mill-dam without a thought for what it was going to cost him — and them , he 'd see to that — in the long run . |
| 36 | I rather wish I 'd taken the step earlier . |
| 37 | Paul Crossland admitted in court that he 'd taken the cash out of union funds , but said he 'd felt entitled to it because he had saved the union so much money . |
| 38 | He 'd taken the lead up here — fear of ambushes or not — poking the roots with his chieftain 's stick of authority . |
| 39 | ‘ I did n't find out until after I 'd taken the lease on , but the department store on the corner has taken a lot of our casual trade . ’ |
| 40 | She had had to take the time off , but they would n't pay her for it . |
| 41 | The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal . |
| 42 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 43 | After all , he could have taken the girl someplace else . |
| 44 | Voltaire wrote satirically about the British arranging to shoot an admiral to encourage the others , but probably most Englishmen at the time would have taken the idea seriously . |
| 45 | He thought he should have taken the price off . |
| 46 | I know my husband would have taken the door down , and used a plane , but this way there was no mess . , . |
| 47 | She could have taken the phone up to her room , but she felt too annoyed with Peter to want to prolong the call . |
| 48 | But the Marines wo n't have taken the base yet . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ You should have taken the cover off before you filled it , ’ she went on , taking the bottle , almost snatching it , out of Rupert 's hand . |
| 50 | He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch . |
| 51 | Obviously the limits : we should not have taken the wires infinitely thin . |
| 52 | He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal . |
| 53 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ She wo n't have taken the box there . ’ |
| 55 | Ipswich could have taken the lead as early as the second minute , when Steve Whitton picked up a poor clearance by Nigel Spink and cracked a drive just wide from 25 yards . |
| 56 | Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake . |
| 57 | I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured . |
| 58 | Birds , said George , he 'd have taken the punnet too . |
| 59 | We cooked and served the meal that Sir Thomas had recently eaten ; it is true he could have taken the poison afterwards , however , or when he was away from the table during the entremets . |
| 60 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |