Example sentences of "[vb mod] have take [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have taken her milk in , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ I should have taken her home sooner , ’ Frere was saying . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father . |
| 4 | You should have taken my advice . |
| 5 | But Dad said only : ‘ You should have taken your sister with you — ’ ( as if I would take Ethel anywhere I did n't have to — and certainly not the lavatory . ) |
| 6 | But the struggle must have taken its toll on her , until the time came when she needed help herself . |
| 7 | Kate was n't surprised ; yesterday must have taken its toll even though he was superlatively fit . |
| 8 | And it would , I mean they , they would n't of even had expensive houses anyway but they must have taken their value away tremendously . |
| 9 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 10 | His voice became slightly fainter and more echoey ; he must have taken his mouth away from the handset . |
| 11 | and now he 'll have to change his ways and he 'll have to take her shopping . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have to take your word for that . |
| 13 | You 'll have to take my word for it , we do n't get that kind of trauma too often . ’ |
| 14 | and then and then I was going yeah I really want to take , I 'll have to take my stereo home and he goes yeah your stereo 's quite big is n't it , I went when have you seen my stereo and he goes oh I came up the other day to see if you were in . |
| 15 | I 'll have to take my coat before I go in because if it 's a bit smoky or what have you |
| 16 | ‘ Well , we 'll have to take our chance on Plenty . |
| 17 | I think we 'll have to take our chance out there . |
| 18 | No , I 'm just trying to work out how long I 'm gon na be practising for West Side Story tomorrow because you might have to take my money my pocket money tomorrow I might not be able to get like home , sort of cos er I I might be practising till bloody six o'clock for all I know so I 'll get some chips or something . |
| 19 | Other times she would go down to the galley to prepare a meal , which might have taken her mind off the water but rarely did . |
| 20 | She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end . |
| 21 | ‘ He could have taken my eye out if he 'd had a knife . |
| 22 | They could have taken our property and we are paying our poll tax . ’ |
| 23 | He could have taken his pick of the women in the club — Candy was n't the only one to be bowled over by his dark compelling features . |
| 24 | This gentleman could have taken his time , but as Adele Appassany , another assistant who witnessed the scenes the day before explained : |
| 25 | It was no good , she 'd have to take her jersey off . |
| 26 | The sickening that I was making a mess of the first real pitch of the first real pitch of IV± , and that I 'd have to take my sack off if I was going to stay on , swept over me . |
| 27 | Even if I 'd told you that I heard it on the local news , I doubt you 'd have taken my word for it . |
| 28 | I 'd have taken my overcoat if I 'd known . |
| 29 | If he 'd have taken his time and he 'd have got himself some more work yeah ? |
| 30 | Doctors fear Mrs Conlan may have taken her daughter away because she thinks further treatment is futile . |