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

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1 The youth has taken a year off from his studies at Edinburgh University to fight his trial .
2 IT IS HIS SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND HAS TAKEN THE DAY OFF .
3 A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 She had had to take the time off , but they would n't pay her for it .
8 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 .
9 He thought he should have taken the price off .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 I also liked the pocket at the front of the sack — it 's big enough for hat and gloves , knick-knacks , food etc and easy for a companion to get at without you having to take the pack off .
12 so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with
13 ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’
14 I was sweating , you could imagine thinking God we 're going to have to take the wheels off and drag it through with a tractor or something like that on skids , cos we needed the van for Monday and there was n't going to be a lot of t But then suddenly yes a again I suddenly th
15 And I can see the o old father when he used to have s want to make the mo the machine immobile , while he did something particular to it , so like you switching the electricity off , well , h he used to have to take the belts off .
16 ‘ I 've taken a day off and I 've changed my shift . ’
17 Better than that , the Power Launcher itself has a timed event facility , which means that you can set it to open an application at a given time — so that file you promised to send to a colleague via modem by ten o'clock on Thursday can be sent automatically , even if you 've taken the day off sick ( assuming the cleaner has n't switched your PC off , of course ! )
18 I 've taken the thorns off , and I 've defoliated them .
19 I was being suppressed by Central Authorities for so long , but now they 've taken the lid off .
20 Bu but half off and half in at in moment cos I 've taken the time off but there 's lots of problems , like half the team 's gone off sick with pleurisy , tonsillitis and everything
21 Vina , who was Irish champion two years ago , had taken a year off from competition to have a baby last September , and Punchestown was her first major outing this season with Knockdrin .
22 I had taken a day off from my work , and I was doing a little gentle fishing in a river near Leithen 's house .
23 Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat .
24 As we did so he explained he had taken the day off , instead of next Sunday , which would have been part of his free week-end .
25 He found a rusty man-trap in a cupboard — an evil contraption of chains and springs and teeth — and assured her that it had taken the leg off more than one poacher in its day .
26 ‘ I was so sick , I had to take a day off .
27 We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off
28 We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off
29 ‘ You ca n't fake bottled beer ; there 's no way you can put in something that 's innocuous and cap it , and part of the action was that Freddie had to take the cap off .
30 And er and that that 's They had to take the top off to make it safe , that 's why I say a couple of hours work to put the top back on , erm makes balance .
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