Example sentences of "he [vb -s] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 2 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 3 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 4 | Although his title , The Rural Muse : Studies in the Peasant Poetry of England ( 1954 ) , implies that he has taken a positive view , he is hardpressed at times to defend the value of the peasant poet : |
| 5 | But since the arrival of Robins , he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman . |
| 6 | He has taken a freebie holiday at enormous expense and the jury has found it is clearly not on . |
| 7 | He has taken a reconstruction of a Bronze Age galley along the coasts of the Aegean and the Black Sea in search of the routes used by Ulysses and by Jason and the Argonauts . |
| 8 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 9 | ‘ He has taken a marked fancy to you , my dear , ’ pursued the other . |
| 10 | He has taken a marked fancy to my expectations , she might have said . |
| 11 | Will the hon. Gentleman tell the constituent of mine who is over 21 and earns £50 for a 40-hour week why he has taken a greater percentage of the young man 's earnings than he has from his right hon. and hon. Friends who go to the City and , for part-time work , earn hundreds of thousands of pounds ? |
| 12 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 13 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 14 | Evergreen Gordon Strachan added his vote too , saying : ‘ He has taken a lot of stick and I know that feeling ; that sick-to-your stomach feeling after a costly mistake , like a missed penalty . |
| 15 | For example it monitors driving times and can tell a driver when he needs to take a break . |
| 16 | He wants to take a ‘ portrait ’ of me . |
| 17 | Passionately anxious to serve Carlotta , he undertakes to take a message from her to Don Manuel , at a time when he and his followers are seriously threatened by the dictator . |
| 18 | If he be a rustic , or unused to travelling , and he intends to take a morning train , he will probably make a point of taking up a strong position at the station the night before his prospective journey and camping on the platform . |
| 19 | The only part of the United States in which he seems to take a consistent interest is Brooklyn . |
| 20 | The story of a former pupil who becomes a master at the school ; his affection for the place survives ill-treatment , for after inheriting money , retiring , and marrying the ‘ wardrobe-woman ’ , he continues to take a kindly interest in the boys . |
| 21 | Mm oh he 's taken a big chunk of the grass . |
| 22 | he 's taken a bite and he 's fucking spurting water all over the |
| 23 | Richard Clutterbuck is a lecturer in Law in our School of Social Sciences at the University , and he 's taken a particular interest into legal aspects of violence in society . |
| 24 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |