Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah I know our Lorraine has took the phone over .
2 The youth has taken a year off from his studies at Edinburgh University to fight his trial .
3 Thomas Cook , the best-known name on the high street , has taken a leaf out of the book of Airtours ( which owns Pickfords ) and has snapped up a 10.3% stake in Owners Abroad , the UK 's second biggest operator .
4 The Institute has taken a leaf out of CIMA 's book and joined Opportunity 2000 , the business-led initiative launched by John Major , which aims to put more women into top management jobs by the beginning of the next century ( see ACCOUNTANCY , December 1991 , p 15 ) .
5 ZZAP ! to date has taken the mickey out of everyone without being prejudiced against anyone or anything .
6 IT IS HIS SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND HAS TAKEN THE DAY OFF .
7 A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song .
8 Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language .
9 GRAEME SOUNESS steps back into the pressure cooker of soccer management tomorrow , snarling at suggestions that heart surgery has taken the fire out of him .
10 United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on .
11 I think in truth erm er we 'd taken a weekend off and er to go to Venice , there was a big er art exhibition on and Anne wanted to see that .
12 He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way .
13 I 'd taken a year off just before I found out I was pregnant , because I 'd badly needed a break and then I could n't work looking fat .
14 ‘ I 'd taken a band out of the independent scene and guided them and refined them .
15 no my wallet and some one handed it in and they 'd taken a fiver out of it , they 'd gone , oh , oh
16 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 ! ’
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He 'd taken the lead up here — fear of ambushes or not — poking the roots with his chieftain 's stick of authority .
20 ‘ 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 . ’
21 She had had to take the time off , but they would n't pay her for it .
22 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 .
23 He thought he should have taken the price off .
24 I know my husband would have taken the door down , and used a plane , but this way there was no mess . , .
25 She could have taken the phone up to her room , but she felt too annoyed with Peter to want to prolong the call .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake .
28 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 .
29 Having taken the plank out of our eye , we can see clearly how the Craft has stepped into the vacuum .
30 We might have to , we might be able to get away without having to take the board out , if I if I use the old de- solderer might be able to just hook it out and put the next one in .
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