Example sentences of "[vb mod] have taken a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have taken a stat . ’ |
| 2 | I wondered if we should have taken a cab . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 5 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 6 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His trip should have taken a month . |
| 10 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 11 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 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 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He must have taken a cut in pay . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | Peterborough weathered the storm and could have taken a shock lead after 31 minutes . |
| 26 | And Person X could have taken a shot at you . ’ |
| 27 | And he may have taken a drink or two to steady his nerves . |
| 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 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 30 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |