Example sentences of "have taken [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Mr Chirac during that earlier experiment , Mr Balladur has taken care to consult Mr Mitterrand regularly . |
| 2 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 3 | Royle added : ‘ Olney has taken time to settle in but he is full of running and he is now doing okay . |
| 4 | Amis has taken time to rehearse the arguments about politics hijacking literature , and in the end the novel may even surprise some readers with its air of amused tolerince : ‘ Even bad poetry had to exist , if only to heighten good poetry by contrast , to make the good poets shine out as even bette . ’ |
| 5 | The General Synod of the Church of England votes on the matter next week , but already the Bishop of Chester has taken action to head off a split in his church . |
| 6 | ‘ The CIOB identified a need for this magazine and has taken action to meet that need . |
| 7 | The development of this northern suburb is better understood than its southern counterpart , because enough small-scale excavation has taken place to elaborate the information from the aerial photographs . |
| 8 | In the general review that has taken place to see where we can reduce spending from the public purse … we came to the conclusion that the cost of development control was an area where some part of the cost should be recovered . ’ |
| 9 | But in one corner of the churchyard , not far from the rotting wooden gate in the surrounding wall , there stands a cross which someone has taken trouble to keep upright and its inscription legible . |
| 10 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |
| 11 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 12 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 13 | Mannaia seem to have taken care to propose people who were indeed from the active lineages but who lived in Tazarbu , and were therefore not personally involved in the conflict with Awlad Amira : while insisting on the principle of unrelenting solidarity , they tacitly mitigated the provocation by proposing candidates who had themselves not been active in the dispute . |
| 14 | You will say I ought to have informed you I would not part with the boy in such circumstances as you had taken trouble to describe but until I saw the girl I was not sure in my own mind what to do and only made it up when confronted with her and not taking to her at all . |
| 15 | Polybius , who did not like Timaeus , admitted that he had taken trouble to get information about the West . |
| 16 | It was ridiculous to be upset at all , since she had herself intended to tell Nick she was married as soon as she saw him , or to make sure he saw her left hand on which today she had taken care to wear her wedding ring . |
| 17 | The city authorities had taken care to use the day to process certain cases in the court . |
| 18 | I agree that such a tax system based on the capital value of houses , on a national banding system , would be unfair unless we had taken care to provide for compressed rates of taxation . |
| 19 | In addition to which , Kenamun had taken care to keep them waiting an hour in an unventilated antechamber before seeing them . |
| 20 | He had taken care to tell no one save Felicity where he was staying . |
| 21 | The girl had struck her three times on the right thigh , just where the once-broken bone was , and had taken care to stay out of the field of her optic burner . |
| 22 | While indulging his melancholy thoughts he had taken care to position himself in a nobly pensive attitude , with the candle at his side lending a glistening aureole to his dark profile . |
| 23 | Reporters and Panels had taken care to concentrate on the actualities rather than technicalities . |
| 24 | Mosley , speaking after a meeting of the Formula One commission of FISA at a Heathrow hotel , said he had taken action to sort out the confusion after weeks of chaos . |
| 25 | Thus , within months of the publication of the Report , the government had taken action to implement some of its main recommendations . |
| 26 | At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home . |
| 27 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 28 | Associated reasons for her death were the severe injuries to her nose and mouth , which was broken and swollen , the multiple attempts that had taken place to strangle her and the fact that she also had a large quantity of alcohol in her body about six times the legal level for drivers . |
| 29 | But few have taken insurance to protect their income in such an event , ’ said Mr Temple . |
| 30 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |