Example sentences of "have take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 45 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 2 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 50 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 3 | IT HAS TAKEN A TOTAL OF 70 MINUTES TO COMPLETE . |
| 4 | Third , more recently , local government auditors have been given powers of early intervention when a local authority has taken a decision which would involve unlawful expenditure or a course of action which would lead to unlawful loss . |
| 5 | It is most certainly true that Kenyans must decide their own future , but in this case the Kenyan president has taken a decision which does not serve his people well . |
| 6 | . I hardly dare say this in this context , but if we well now the Council has taken a decision to close this elderly person 's home , there is actually a logic to it , which I 'd like to talk about . |
| 7 | It has taken a 50pc stake in a yarn spinning mill and a 60pc stake in a scheme to produce industrial wool yarn for export . |
| 8 | Duggan has taken a ski-ing holiday in the United States while the tricky negotiations were taking place this weekend . |
| 9 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 10 | The company has taken a £47m hit above the line and another £23m below . |
| 11 | It 's clear that ace coach Eddie Futch has taken a shine to him . |
| 12 | IT has taken a year for the new formula to be agreed — at a time when ITN was coping with a budget squeeze in the wake of the crippling cost of covering the Gulf War . |
| 13 | Another journal has taken a year to respond on more than one occasion . |
| 14 | The youth has taken a year off from his studies at Edinburgh University to fight his trial . |
| 15 | We know of a person from Churchstoke who has taken a Video of the remains of the old trackbed , but so far this Video has not been seen . |
| 16 | Anglo-French relations has taken a turn for the worse and Queen Victoria 's enthusiasm for the project evaporated . |
| 17 | Now the weather has taken a turn for the worse we realise we need to heat it . |
| 18 | Until I can do this , the entire complex cascade I have described in the previous section , and which has taken a decade of work to map , might simply turn out to be a consequence of a bad taste in the chick 's mouth and nothing to do with learning and memory at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Black Will has taken a fancy to your little brother — what think you of that ! |
| 20 | Looks like egg-laying has taken a beating . |
| 21 | If they sign an ‘ income received ’ deal , they will only receive their proportion of the royalties sent to their UK publisher , after the foreign publisher has taken a percentage . |
| 22 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 23 | Lake , who is getting out , has taken a bit of a battering and feels that her spontaneous outpourings the other day were probably misconstrued . |
| 24 | One of the reputations that has taken a bit of a bashing is Sigismond Thalberg 's . |
| 25 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 26 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 27 | The British banger has taken a bit of a grilling today . |
| 28 | Almost every conjurer who has taken a parti pris in this field has found himself accused of possessing psychic powers . |
| 29 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 30 | Yussuf has taken a knife ! ’ |