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Example sentences of "to have take a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Well , she 's usually particular who rides Leopold , but she seems to have taken a shine to the boy .
2	Since Lemmy 's move to LA , Motorhead 's fortunes seem to have taken a turn for the better .
3	The playing fortunes of David Campese , on the other hand , seem to have taken a turn for the worse .
4	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 .
5	Nero wants you for the circus , he seems to have taken a fancy to you and was asking about the lanolin — say no more !
6	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 .
7	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 . ’
8	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 .
9	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 .