Example sentences of "[vb mod] have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Think we should 've taken the gag off ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You should 've taken out insurance . |
| 3 | well you should 've taken those Migrolifs because there supposed to be for migraines |
| 4 | I thought it was a fine display of irreligious pop art myself , but the local Scout Master must 've taken offence , for the Dog pack packed up and headed for The Robey , where they currently host their anti-establishment , multi-media club nights . |
| 5 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 6 | You should have taken it years ago . |
| 7 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 8 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 9 | ‘ If we had wanted to deal with it at the time , we should have taken the action then . ’ |
| 10 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But this performance sagged at the point where it should have taken off , the Dance Song . |
| 13 | I should have taken more care . |
| 14 | Both Stalin and Hitler should have taken note of the aesthetics . |
| 15 | We should have taken some heed from the birch trees halfway up the track which were bending double in the gale , and from the fact that five minutes after leaving the car , we were wetter than the Scottish Sub-Aqua team . |
| 16 | It seems curious that for all those hard-riding , hard-drinking squires , the eternal search for a status symbol should have taken the form of building temples to nymphs and dryads . |
| 17 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 18 | They clearly felt he should have taken a more manly approach to the brain tumour . |
| 19 | The journey from Marseilles to the Holy Land should have taken fifteen days . |
| 20 | Hindhead should have taken the lead when Frampton 's cross was misjudged by Wagstaff in front of a gaping goal . |
| 21 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
| 22 | Chiddingfold should have taken the lead after five minutes when Rob Madgwick conceded a penalty for a trip . |
| 23 | Now the meeting , which should have taken ten minutes , was being dragged out to three-quarters of an hour . |
| 24 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 25 | Mind you , perhaps Ferrari should have taken more notice of Mario a lot earlier , but 1971 and 1972 were indifferent Ferrari years . |
| 26 | It seemed to me that she should have taken my part , should somehow have defended me from my father . |
| 27 | He should have taken the decision to allow women to be ordained instead of opening the issue to a damaging debate that has succeeded only in widening rifts within the Church . |
| 28 | Watford had the best of the early exchanges , but Leeds should have taken the lead after 16 minutes . |
| 29 | ‘ You should have taken those pills . ’ |
| 30 | I should have taken better care of you . ’ |