Example sentences of "have [verb] take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he has stopped taking drugs and started sitting around watching a lot of television . |
| 2 | Wrong horse … and speaking of odds , word reaches us that super-confident Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb is so much the punters ' favourite that the town 's biggest bookie has stopped taking bets . |
| 3 | It would be a tragedy for the aircraft preservation and restoration movement as a whole if it were all scrapped , and so it is with great sadness that after a great deal of thought they are agreed ( having been partners both in business and as husband and wife ) that the time has come to take life a bit easier and retire from the business . |
| 4 | On Feb. 12 a Soviet Foreign Ministry official confirmed that members of the Warsaw Treaty organization had " concluded that the time has come to take steps to wind up the military structure of the organization " and that the final decision would be taken at ministerial , and not summit , level . |
| 5 | None too soon , the Royal Ballet has decided to take notice . |
| 6 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 7 | Winkelmann , and thus Kauffman , were part of the ‘ invention ’ of the Greeks as the ancestors of western art , an invention which Martin Bernal has shown took place in the 18th century by displacing the existing stories of art — that Greek culture grew out of the Egyptian , African and Semitic cultures of the Mediterranean world — and producing what he calls the ‘ Aryan ’ and highly racist version of that history which denied the impact of Africa and the Semitic ( Phoenicians in particular ) peoples in order to redefine the Greeks as symbols of a specifically white and anti-semitic Europe . |
| 8 | You 'll be pleased to know that a minibus driver from Faringdon in Oxfordshire has offered to take Mrs Wilkinson to her family and friends in Blackpool . |
| 9 | Someone has got to take hold of it . |
| 10 | WHILE in London to sing the title role in the first British production of Verdi 's Stiffelio , the great tenor Jose Carreras has agreed to take part in the Australia Day Gala Concert . |
| 11 | Seve Ballesteros has agreed to take part and , the press were told , will do so in the " spirit of international competition . " |
| 12 | AMR Corp , parent of American Airlines Inc , has agreed to take delivery of a KSR1 later this year and signed a letter of intent to collaborate for five years on a project to simplify the task of analysing and manipulating massive amounts of data . |
| 13 | AMR Corp , parent of American Airlines Inc , has agreed to take delivery of a KSR1 later this year and signed a letter of intent to collaborate for five years on a project to simplify the task of analysing and manipulating massive amounts of data . |
| 14 | Oceanport , New Jersey-based Concurrent Computer Corp has has opted to take Unix System Laboratories Inc 's Unix System V.4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , which are due out by the end of this calendar year . |
| 15 | Concurrent Computer Corp , which recently posted better than expected third quarter results ( see below ) , has opted to take Unix System Labs ' Unix System V Release 4.2 MP as the operating system for its next generation of real-time Unix systems , due out by the end of this calendar year ( UX No 402 ) . |
| 16 | A thousand neo-Nazis have firebombed a refugee hostel in eastern Germany , the government there has pledged to take action . |
| 17 | The dream of the New Look has to have taken place during or after the summer of 1950 , because in it I wore one of my two summer dresses , one of green and one of blue gingham , that were made that year and that lasted me , with letting down , until I went to school . |
| 18 | Once he has learned to take steps , he can practise these at home , perhaps using the kitchen fitted surfaces for support as he moves sideways in each direction . |
| 19 | This , together with improvements in diet and exercise and also in the average man 's or woman 's physical environment throughout the century , may account for the decline in the death-rate which has continued to take place in recent years for those who have already reached middle age ( see Table I.6 ) . |
| 20 | Consumption monitoring should take place after a settling-in period has elapsed to take account of staff learning curves and untypical use during product familiarisation . |
| 21 | DANNY Porter has vowed to take Scotsman Pat Clinton 's WBO flyweight title in Glasgow on September l9 . |
| 22 | Data-gathering provides an early-warning system so that the situation can be analysed soon after the trend has begun to take shape and corrective measures can be applied promptly . |
| 23 | Taiwan , threatened with an international boycott because of its failure to sign the Montreal protocol , has begun taking steps to phase out use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) . |
| 24 | A spokesperson for Prince Charles said ‘ In negotiating this licence the Duchy of Cornwall has endeavoured to take account of the nation 's interests as a whole , including the government of the day 's stated continuing requirement to train on Dartmoor . ’ |
| 25 | And she has failed to take action to limit the damage to her family 's image each time scandal has threatened . |
| 26 | In fact where there is a great deal of evidence of use , this could be a substitute for poor employment practice which has failed to take account of matching manpower/patient needs . |
| 27 | She 'd decided to take Dad away . |
| 28 | So today it was lessons at home for some of the class provided by parents who 'd had to take time off work . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought you 'd agreed to take Stella 's place . |
| 30 | In fact there were only four , but that looked quite enough for the two dare-devils who 'd volunteered to take part . |