Example sentences of "[vb mod] have take a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 2 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 3 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 6 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 7 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 8 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 9 | If you did n't like what was happening , you should have taken a curtain call and gone home , ’ he said coldly , totally without pity . |
| 10 | His trip should have taken a month . |
| 11 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 12 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 15 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 18 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 19 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 20 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 21 | I 'll have to take a taxi . ’ |
| 22 | You 'll have to take a taxi . ’ |
| 23 | They they 'll have to take a share |
| 24 | I 'll have to take a chance wo n't I ? |
| 25 | I think we 'll have to take a person internally |
| 26 | We 'll have to take a couple of gifts up for them . |
| 27 | In the meantime he 'll have to take a back seat whilst his team-mates bid for World Cup glory . |
| 28 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 29 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 30 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |