Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun has taken no orders for the Model 52 and 54 , originally due this quarter and next quarter respectively , and told securities analysts each would be off a quarter . |
| 2 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 3 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 4 | Now the weather has taken a turn for the worse we realise we need to heat it . |
| 5 | Sun Microsystems Inc has taken a licence for Digital 's Tools ' key project planning product AutoPlan , for internal use . |
| 6 | Both represent such a considerable departure from previous practice , however , and share so many features in common , that it has taken a while for the dust to settle after the major upheavals of recent years and for the difference between them to emerge . |
| 7 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 8 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |
| 9 | Your boy could have taken the dive for the Mahoney kill . |
| 10 | I think he must have taken the key for my cottage from the board by the kitchen door . |
| 11 | ‘ Then she may have taken the poison for one of the spices . |
| 12 | I figured that Barry must have taken the duck for cover back in the alleyway . |
| 13 | Solaris x86 for Intel Corp architectures will move to release 2.2 later this year — from 2.1 now — Sun admits only to Compaq Computer Corp and AST Research Inc having taken the release for their iAPX-86 multiprocessors . |
| 14 | Solaris x86 for Intel Corp architectures will move to release 2.2 later this year — from 2.1 now — Sun admits only to Compaq Computer Corp and AST Research Inc having taken the release for their iAPX-86 multiprocessors . |
| 15 | The Prime Minister also feels that having taken the flak for the longest recession since the war , Mr Lamont is entitled to receive the laurels when the predicted recovery begins . |
| 16 | The moral of the whole story is that you really do have to take the responsibility for making the choice of PC yourself . |
| 17 | He 'd have to take the flak for having a lift with Mrs Wright . |
| 18 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 19 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 20 | She seemed to have taken a turn for the worse , her eyes had gone dull and slitty again with a third kind of lid coming half across . |
| 21 | Someone is going to have to take the hit for this . ’ |
| 22 | the first time I 've taken a pill for years and years and she said , my taste and my smell |
| 23 | ‘ It seems terrible now , David , to think that you 've taken the blame for so long for something you did n't do . |
| 24 | We 've taken the canal for granted in the past , but now we 're looking forward . |
| 25 | I moved back to Edinburgh too because er my er my family had taken a yearning for Edinburgh , they did n't like East Kilbride so I says left . |
| 26 | She had taken a craving for the sight of green grass . |
| 27 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 28 | In fact , he said , since the treaty was negotiated , the outlook for European economies had taken a turn for the worse and national problems now loomed large on the domestic agenda , causing people 's perceptions about the treaty to change . |
| 29 | He could have continued placidly with the life he had chosen , and would have excelled ; but telegrams of a peremptory nature , saying his mother 's illness had taken a turn for the worse and he must come , kept arriving from Colonel Carteret , and Paul had to leave his work , abandon lectures , and make the weary journey to London time and again , only to find Sophia weak but resigned , and reproachful for his having come at all . |
| 30 | Life had taken a turn for the better . |