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

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1 The thing that saddens me is that we 're supposed to have a T U C , that organization is supposed to draw together the various trade unions and what are we seeing , an ideal opportunity slipped from our grasp when the miners were facing the issue of jobs to public service workers should have linked up with the miners and we should have took the government on
2 We could have took the icing off that .
3 I do n't suppose No they would n't have any warning about this going to happen or they would never have taking a lot of bairns down among it .
4 It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof .
5 We should have taken a taxi , thought Mrs Grandison unhappily as she and Lady Selvedge , jostled by crowds , hurried down the passage leading to the northbound Bakerloo trains .
6 Yes in the vicin I I did n't know the cupboards were near the bed , but yes , in relation to the bed those two places would it have taken a fraction of a second to strip off the duvet to check what was under it .
7 He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off .
8 That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly .
9 It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described .
10 Peterborough weathered the storm and could have taken a shock lead after 31 minutes .
11 ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill .
12 But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic .
13 He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced .
14 That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard .
15 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
16 It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer .
17 A real thief would have taken a screwdriver and levered off the clasps .
18 I wondered if we should have taken a cab .
19 Most will have taken a Foundation course in Art and Design , but applicants from a wide range of backgrounds are welcome , including those applying direct from sixth forms .
20 The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable .
21 Her self-confidence might have taken a battering , but that was no reason to forfeit the personal standards her parents had instilled into her since childhood .
22 You should have taken a stat . ’
23 And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves .
24 Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) .
25 Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons .
26 This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home .
27 He took her hand , not to kiss , but as he might have taken a man 's hand who had met him fair and done him honour .
28 So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on .
29 The parent company , perhaps in France or in the USA , will probably have taken a portfolio of beauty pictures when the products were initially launched in their home country .
30 I said she could have taken a degree in her spare time in th she 's only she 's not yet forty I said that 's absolute rubbish I said th the world is full of these damn women going around saying , if only I had n't had children I could have been Lord Chief Justice of England , I said , it is n't true !
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