Example sentences of "have take the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know our Lorraine has took the phone over . |
| 2 | ZZAP ! to date has taken the mickey out of everyone without being prejudiced against anyone or anything . |
| 3 | From two of its existing operations — Software Sciences , which produces the CHAMPS hotel management system and Datasolve , which manages other companies ' data facilities — the new company has taken the name Data Sciences . |
| 4 | The group has taken the title ‘ QLG a National Group of Law Firms ’ with the title derived from the quality law group idea . |
| 5 | But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart . |
| 6 | The number and variations of incidents in ‘ Hamlet ’ are primarily all connected with the incident of Hamlet 's hatred and eventual murder of his uncle , who has taken the throne after killing his ( Hamlet 's ) father Even though at times these may seem irrelevant to this theme , all tie in with Hamlet himself . |
| 7 | More recent work from Samir Amin , Rana Kabbani and Linda Nochlin has taken the consciousness-raising further . |
| 8 | In his chairman 's statement , Terry Shand explains why the group has taken the opportunity to overhaul the presentation of the annual report and accounts and to include operating and financial reviews . |
| 9 | Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ . |
| 10 | Ipswich 's next meeting is on Good Friday and Zdenek Tesar has taken the opportunity of the break to return to Czechoslovakia to see his wife and daughter and do some cross country skiing near his mountain home . |
| 11 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 12 | IT IS HIS SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AND HAS TAKEN THE DAY OFF . |
| 13 | A promotion-chasing football team has taken the day off from a hectic training schedule to record a pop song . |
| 14 | He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final . |
| 15 | Leo Castelli has taken the occasion of all this Guggenmania to mount a show exploring plans for two of the other projected Guggenheims those for Bilbao , Spain , and for Salzburg , Austria . |
| 16 | Others have discovered that if you depress a note behind the slide , the string passes under it enabling it to sound ; but no-one has taken the technique to the extent that this man has . |
| 17 | This hardly counts as internal fertilisation , but the sea-horse , a shorter relative of the pipe-fish that swims with its body held vertically and not horizontally , has taken the principle of male-brooding considerably further . |
| 18 | ‘ Barry wants to see how she has taken the race and I do n't think he will make his mind up until next week , ’ said owner-breeder Dick Hollingsworth . |
| 19 | ‘ It has taken the rise in bottled water drinking to make it practicable to sell it on its own . ’ |
| 20 | Harvey may refuse the usual ‘ women 's role ’ but she has taken the indie scene by storm by writing some starkly troubled sexual vignettes while sounding as if she 's profoundly at ease in her own skin . |
| 21 | ‘ My bet is that Nevil has taken the girl already — maybe Dover to Folkestone . |
| 22 | It has taken the rest of industry in this country a remarkably long time to come around to his viewpoint , but it is finally looking as though the penny has dropped . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Murray Johnstone has taken the approach of cutting its initial charge to 1 per cent and always dealing on the full spread . |
| 24 | After the dying Stepan Verkhovensky has taken the sacrament he says ‘ however , tomorrow — Tomorrow we shall all set off . ’ |
| 25 | Nynex Corp 's Nynex CableComms unit has bought three of the eight UK cable television companies that Pacific Telesis Group Inc 's PacTel Cable UK Ltd put on the market last June ( CI No 1,943 ) : Nynex has taken the Greater Manchester , Bolton and Derby franchises and while it did not disclose terms , says it plans to invest £1,000m over the next five to six years to provide local telecommunications networks in its British franchise areas ; the companies it acquired are in franchise areas where it already operates . |
| 26 | Captain Ieuan Evans acknowledged : ‘ The level of enthusiasm our victory has caused has taken the boys a bit by surprise but , as Bob said , it 's gratifying to see how the boys have responded . ’ |
| 27 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 28 | Bob has taken the plunge & acquired a video recorder — masquerading as my birthday present to him . |
| 29 | Denmark , which has invested heavily in CHP , has taken the systems to rural villages and outlying suburbs , not just the cities and towns , proof that it is a workable technology . |
| 30 | Imagine says it has taken the complexity out of authoring by creating a program that constructs sophisticated hypermedia apps without recourse to a scripting language . |