Example sentences of "have [adv] take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A RE-THINKING of High Noon , awarding more points to the practical men who have finally to take a stand , as represented by farmer Van Heflin , who just wants to get his crops in , with the figure of the hero reincarnated as Alan Ladd in fringed buckskins . |
| 2 | Marjorie Perloff has remarked that young American academics and students have a shared culture based on having read or studied the same books : ‘ they have , by and large , taken courses that expose them to writers like Freud , Nietzsche , and Marx , whereas the odds are that they have not taken a course in , say , the lyric poetry of Goethe , the fiction of Stendhal , or the theatre of Molière . ’ |
| 3 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 4 | The only staff who have not taken a drop in their pay packets are manager Steve Coppell , his assistant Alan Smith and the players . |
| 5 | I have just taken a cone of machine washable wool from my shelf , it is sold as ‘ four-ply ’ . |
| 6 | There 's the River Thames — how many of our local people have ever taken a holiday on the River Thames ? erm and we have many hire boats down there which offer a very good holiday at a very good price . |
| 7 | ‘ You have n't taken a shine to the girl , have you ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't taken a penny in wages since we opened the shop and in the past five months Douglas has n't had a wage either . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I have recently taken a course to learn how to fish . |
| 10 | Ever since that event I have never taken a trolley off anyone , and have explained why if needed to and told as many people as possible about it . |