Example sentences of "to have take [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Geoffrey , although he seems to have taken no part in suppressing the revolt , had also been in the Limousin during that summer . |
| 2 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , she 's usually particular who rides Leopold , but she seems to have taken a shine to the boy . |
| 4 | Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better . |
| 5 | The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Nero wants you for the circus , he seems to have taken a fancy to you and was asking about the lanolin — say no more ! |
| 8 | Both people entering unemployment as a result of losing a temporary job and people taking temporary jobs as a way out of unemployment seemed more likely to have taken a number of jobs , to have experienced a number of spells of unemployment , to have had less time in work and more time in unemployment than people becoming unemployed for other reasons , or managing to obtain a permanent job on leaving unemployment . |
| 9 | He must have seen the blaze of fury in Sophie 's eyes , but , ignoring it , he added smilingly , ‘ Fate seems to have taken a hand in our affairs . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Farrow is understood locally to have taken the conveyance between the Earl of Carnarvon and himself over the lordship of the manor to mean that he was owner of the common . |
| 11 | The unexpectedness of this request seems to have taken the king by surprise . |
| 12 | Some drivers are reported to have taken the law into their own hands by illegally carrying weapons to defend themselves . |
| 13 | After some early difficulties , his grip on England apparently became firm enough , and its magnates committed to the Danish dynasty : nobody seems to have taken the claims of the æthelings Edward and Alfred seriously in 1036 . |
| 14 | Historians seem to have taken the lead from their subject : the RPF is still the least studied and least well-understood part of de Gaulle 's career . |
| 15 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 16 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 17 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 18 | In France it seems mainly to have taken the form of rationalization during a major merger boom . |
| 19 | Maggie herself , he knew , understood the situation well enough : there was no one more sensible than Maggie ; but her auntie , who seemed to have taken the place of her mother and , like a mother , had her future interests at heart , was always bringing her qualities to the fore for him to admire . |
| 20 | ‘ Possessiveness seems to have taken the place of affection with them . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , as Russia 's economy burns , inflation now a hairsbreadth from the banana republic variety , its leaders fiddle with its future — locked in a political power struggle which would now seem to have taken the place of anything resembling coherent government . |
| 22 | After the last rise in base rates , all sources of advice to the Chancellor do seem to have taken the view through the summer that the squeeze was working . |
| 23 | The bears are thought to have taken an interest in the local sheep after grazing areas were enclosed in a neighbouring valley [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 24 | The point I 'm going to make is that erm , if we are n't going to get through the year and we 're all going to have to take a percentage of our March allowances because the money 's run out and we 're cash limited even if we give ourselves five percent extra , erm , could I get an assurance from the officers that the people that have n't put in their forms will get a note to remind them to do so , so that everybody is in there , you wo n't suddenly find that because you have n't had your claim form in by the fourteenth you 're gon na get nothing and everybody else is gon na get something . |
| 25 | But I was real familiar with his records and so I knew it was gon na be that way ; in fact it was really kinda fun to have to take a guess at when he was gon na change . |
| 26 | Someone is going to have to take the hit for this . ’ |