Example sentences of "have taken [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But North Tyneside , the region 's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news . |
| 2 | For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport . |
| 3 | Monday dinner was always cold meat , for the washing would have taken all morning . |
| 4 | It would n't have taken much brains to realise that Leeds would have a large number of travelling fans and that they would like to eat . |
| 5 | Achieving this independence will often have taken many years and will certainly have involved a great deal of effort . |
| 6 | ‘ They could have taken that book from you by force , ’ Iain suggested . |
| 7 | Treasury should be followed , but they may have taken that view precisely because , so far as B was concerned , it was a case of questions being put to a person who had been charged . |
| 8 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 9 | Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and . |
| 10 | Certainly , it is not easy to see on what basis the magistrate could have taken that fact into account when deciding whether or not to commit the applicant ; for the point only arises if there was sufficient evidence to justify the committal , in which event the magistrate was bound under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 1 to commit the applicant . |
| 11 | Perhaps the patient always made the key decisions in the home , or you may have taken those decisions together , whereas you might now find yourself having to make the decisions for the patient , yourself and other members of the family . |
| 12 | ‘ You should have taken those pills . ’ |
| 13 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 14 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 15 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 16 | Julius still would n't have taken any notice . |
| 17 | ‘ If you were really so concerned for her you would n't have taken any notice of me . |
| 18 | I shuddered , the very thought of anyone being so foolish baffled me , the steps were so rotten that it would n't have taken any weight to have snapped them and sent anyone plunging down causing a bad injury . |
| 19 | It would n't have taken as Mr has pointed out , any cognizance of the fact that there 's difference for different times of the day , nor would it have taken any account of the fact that people would perceive the travel times and travel costs in different ways . |
| 20 | Dragging two novices with buoyancy problems looking excitedly at everything on the bottom , must have taken some stamina . |
| 21 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 22 | Yet Dr Evans might have taken some comfort from the wares offered to the more sophisticated sectors of the international market comprising elements from the former governing classes , leaders of financial and industrial corporations and not least the most successful popular entertainers . |
| 23 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 24 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |
| 25 | We should have taken some heed from the birch trees halfway up the track which were bending double in the gale , and from the fact that five minutes after leaving the car , we were wetter than the Scottish Sub-Aqua team . |
| 26 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |
| 27 | Diaper may have taken another cure in Crick , Northamptonshire , and by March 1713–14 was serving in Dean , near Basingstoke . |
| 28 | After that I very much doubt if Alain could have taken another path but into the firm . |
| 29 | But she would have taken more pains than I ( and far more than Roger ) not to hurt them . |
| 30 | Mind you , perhaps Ferrari should have taken more notice of Mario a lot earlier , but 1971 and 1972 were indifferent Ferrari years . |