Example sentences of "have taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peterborough weathered the storm and could have taken a shock lead after 31 minutes . |
| 8 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 13 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 14 | A real thief would have taken a screwdriver and levered off the clasps . |
| 15 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 20 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 21 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | The evidence of whether she would have taken up her place at Norwich in Autumn nineteen eighty seven or would have taken a year off and started in Autumn nineteen eight eight is equivocal . |
| 29 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 30 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |