Example sentences of "he have take the " in BNC.

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1 To an astonishing degree , the controversy about him has taken the form of a continuing debate about his private life .
2 He had too , she realised , although she had been too absorbed in her own clumsy , hopeless awareness of him to have taken the fact in until now .
3 Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments .
4 He has taken the well-established record of annual changes in the average temperature of the northern hemisphere since 1881 , and obtained the best possible fit to this pattern by combining the three external influences : the greenhouse , volcanic and solar effects .
5 He has taken the brunt of the criticism at our ground , but wrongly so .
6 He has taken the scalps of the world number two , Stefan Edberg , then the number three , Pete Sampras , on the way to this final .
7 Finally , Ronchey has obviously decided that the warding profession nationally needed smartening up , so he has taken the opportunity of his decree , which by Anglo-Saxon standards is astonishingly dirigiste in its detail , to order that from now onwards warders are to wear summer and winter uniforms ‘ in conformity with suitable models ’ .
8 But Alain , he is so sensitive , he has taken the affair to heart .
9 Not only has he been prepared to forgive , but he has taken the brave step , for a unionist , of accepting a seat in the Irish Senate , as token of his Irish identity .
10 And the upshot of it is that he has taken the custody of the de Breos lands from the Earl of Cornwall , and bestowed it upon his beloved justiciar .
11 ‘ But he has taken the unusual step of giving the declaration before the reasons because the tribunal ordered the reinstatement by next Monday .
12 He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something .
13 With the authority of a man used to calling hounds to heel he 'd taken the arm from the dog , wrapped it in a towel and set it on the draining board .
14 He 'd taken the lead up here — fear of ambushes or not — poking the roots with his chieftain 's stick of authority .
15 The evening had commenced at a restaurant where Rune had introduced her to koldt bord , the pan-Scandinavian cold buffet-style spread , while he 'd taken the opportunity of finding out more details about Suzie , including her appearance .
16 The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten .
17 When food got scarce , he 'd taken the better paid job of a Sweeper .
18 Before she realised what he was intending he 'd taken the crutch from her and propped it out of reach .
19 He 'd taken the drug a square of paper like this , which would have distorted his perception and could have accentuated suicidal feelings .
20 Paul Crossland admitted in court that he 'd taken the cash out of union funds , but said he 'd felt entitled to it because he had saved the union so much money .
21 Moved by the verdict , Mr Donnellan 's mother said she was proud he 'd taken the case to the police in order to clear himself .
22 How would he have taken the news of this sneaky , hole-in-the-corner business ?
23 ‘ Well , that 's why he had to take the money last night , then !
24 ‘ The scene is so central to the whole film that Sly felt he had to take the cut to save production , ’ said a film insider .
25 Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth .
26 On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved .
27 Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care .
28 But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school .
29 When he had taken the tea and lay warmly wrapped and no longer shivering , Sister Cooney left him .
30 About a week after he had taken the stable , a Land Rover swept round the drive at high speed and disgorged its chamber of horrors — his family .
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