Example sentences of "have take [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal .
2 Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display .
3 After all , he could have taken the girl someplace else .
4 Voltaire wrote satirically about the British arranging to shoot an admiral to encourage the others , but probably most Englishmen at the time would have taken the idea seriously .
5 He thought he should have taken the price off .
6 I know my husband would have taken the door down , and used a plane , but this way there was no mess . , .
7 She could have taken the phone up to her room , but she felt too annoyed with Peter to want to prolong the call .
8 But the Marines wo n't have taken the base yet . ’
9 ‘ You should have taken the cover off before you filled it , ’ she went on , taking the bottle , almost snatching it , out of Rupert 's hand .
10 He must have taken the bucket outside but when he returned Robyn was still struggling furiously with the unfamiliar catch .
11 Obviously the limits : we should not have taken the wires infinitely thin .
12 He could have taken the isolation better if it was n't for the batteries in his radio dying on him without warning ; usually they faded over a couple of nights but this time it was just zonk , no signal .
13 ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’
14 ‘ She wo n't have taken the box there . ’
15 Ipswich could have taken the lead as early as the second minute , when Steve Whitton picked up a poor clearance by Nigel Spink and cracked a drive just wide from 25 yards .
16 Mr Douglas said : ‘ Mr Jackson would have taken the car back from Mr Ross or alternatively tried to arrange compensation for the mistake .
17 I 'm sure she would n't have taken the matter lightly if it had been her own colleagues who had been beaten up and tortured .
18 Birds , said George , he 'd have taken the punnet too .
19 We cooked and served the meal that Sir Thomas had recently eaten ; it is true he could have taken the poison afterwards , however , or when he was away from the table during the entremets .
20 I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty .
21 She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion .
22 And that she 'll just have to take a chance tonight .
23 I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus .
24 And before the funeral the they would he would probably have to take a window out of the house .
25 Just to put the coffin into the house , the would n't have to take a window out to put the coffin in
26 I think we 'll have to take a person internally
27 In fact , of course , we can not even measure what the initial state was , because to do so we would have to take the brain apart .
28 so he went back and he says er , oh he says er he says oh dear like , he says well carry on he says I 'll have to take the door off , so he says can you give a hand to hold it , cos he had to cut er this er like and all grown at the bottom of the door you know with
29 ‘ You do n't have to take the dishes out of the dishwasher and put them in the dish rack and then take the cutlery out of its little plastic box and then put it in the cutlery drawer making sure that the spoons go in one compartment and the knives in another compartment and the forks in another compartment except there are always forks in the spoons compartment and knives in the forks compartment when you get there so it 's hopeless it 's always too late to get things right it 's a total frost honestly is life you are a lot better off dead in my opinion .
30 So it just means I got ta , do I have to take the thing in with me ?
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