Example sentences of "they have take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd taken this information back . |
| 2 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 3 | The Gotobeds were bad owners , you see ; our dad was killed by a rock fall that would never have happened , Mr Evans says , if they 'd taken proper safety precautions . |
| 4 | The time to consider whether one wishes to opt out and whether one was opposed to a certain system is always when a decision has been made , but I 'd have thought it would have been far in the interests of the people of Banbury and the children and parents of Banbury if they 'd taken full advantage of the discussion on the tertiary college and had made their opinions known , and in the light of the results coming out and say a satisfactory decision had arisen that was frankly the time to get into the business of opting out . |
| 5 | They 've taken 130 porters up the Ultar Gorge , and what 's more they 've brought 22,000 feet of Kevlar rope for fixing . ’ |
| 6 | That 's the first and they 'll be the ones that will be able to tell you why they 've taken that decision and why we say it 's a reasonable decision . |
| 7 | And the great thing is they 've taken that opportunity and erm thankfully we are still lying there in second place . |
| 8 | They 've taken each other for a walk , I think they , I think they 're having a little flirtation , I think they 're over there , |
| 9 | Touche Ross are wasting their time and our money , and we regret that they 've taken this action . ’ |
| 10 | But the women who have n't bothered with make-up — unless they 've taken superlative care of their complexions — have now got skin that shows the ravages of time . |
| 11 | They 've taken three oil paintings ; two off the walls and one which was leaning up against the window sill , er the candlesticks and the vases off the altar , another very beautiful , very simple oak chair with cane seat and back . |
| 12 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 13 | Whether they had taken such action with the explicit authorisation of President Gorbachev remained unclear , although it was widely agreed that he had failed to respond adequately to the loss of life that had occurred . |
| 14 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 15 | Either their flight had been delayed , or they had taken one look at this sober crew and retired aghast . |
| 16 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 17 | They had taken professional risks , had survived personal disasters . |
| 18 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 19 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 20 | They had taken several houses when the Troop officer — Captain Johnny Giles — was working his way room by room through another . |
| 21 | That 's obviously been accepted by the labour group because they have taken extra money out of reserves , we 're simply going to take some more out to meet our er our figure that we 're trying to achieve . |
| 22 | Carol Hooper of Wan-stead , East London said : ‘ Michelle said they have taken all precautions . |
| 23 | They have taken great pains to eliminate explanations based on freak signals from side walls , or from inanimate objects ( although we can not entirely discount such hypotheses until we have specifically investigated them ) . |
| 24 | They have taken oral evidence from ministers more frequently . |
| 25 | They have taken this position not because they are resistant to change , but because they believe that these proposals will politicise the British Police Service and they are in my view entirely right to have that view . |
| 26 | Members of the Pre-School playgroups Association ( PPA ) in Wales ( which became in independent association in 1987 ) are so convinced of each family 's right to choice of provision for their children that they have taken positive steps to make this possible . |
| 27 | In literature , though there are still cases of artisanal and distributive post-artisanal relations , productive post-artisanal relations have long been dominant , and important internal changes within them have taken much publishing into a later market phase . |