Example sentences of "he have take a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 2 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 3 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 4 | ‘ He has taken a marked fancy to you , my dear , ’ pursued the other . |
| 5 | He has taken a marked fancy to my expectations , she might have said . |
| 6 | Although his title , The Rural Muse : Studies in the Peasant Poetry of England ( 1954 ) , implies that he has taken a positive view , he is hardpressed at times to defend the value of the peasant poet : |
| 7 | He 'd taken a full seven ounces at ten , and in just ten minutes on each breast too . |
| 8 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 9 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 10 | He had to take a deep breath to stop himself tasting the delicate spot again . |
| 11 | This was true even of the private apartments of the Imperial family , to such an extent that if the Emperor , while working late at night as he often did , wanted a book from his library , he had to take a lighted candle with him . |
| 12 | In between times during the day he had to take a short ladder , laid across the bike and make sure the lamps were clean . |
| 13 | He had taken a great deal of trouble . |
| 14 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 15 | It was the first time he had taken a real look at the premises from the back . |
| 16 | At one time he had taken a mild interest in literature , especially erotic works , but of late it had flagged . |
| 17 | He had taken a personal interest in them ; there , he said , a little pettishly , Edouard would find room for no complaints . |
| 18 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 19 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 20 | It was where he had taken a vivacious Puerto Rican paediatrician , Carmen Rodriguez , on their first date . |
| 21 | He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark . |
| 22 | ‘ Sit down , ’ said Stone , after he had taken a large mouthful of the whisky . |
| 23 | I also spoke to the chief investigator of the Senate committee , who said that he had taken a large amount of information about this to the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington , but the British government had hampered any further investigation . |
| 24 | Smith said that he had taken a pre-match risk only where the fitness of Andy Goram was concerned . |
| 25 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 26 | After being pulled over , John sheepishly explained that he had taken a wrong turning for his home in Gosforth , Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 27 | In September of that year , he had taken a high line with Henry VIII , letting him trundle up to York only to gaze north at an empty road , for James , probably at the persuasion of his council , failed to keep his appointment with the English king . |
| 28 | He had taken a deliberate risk with his own life . |
| 29 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 30 | They could add more tea once he had taken a few sips . |