Example sentences of "[adv] he have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had taken to heart Mrs Thatcher 's quotation from Mark Twain : ‘ Never prophesy about the future . ’ |
| 2 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 3 | In fact , she thought as she splashed cold water on to her hot face , she had n't seen him all morning — perhaps he 'd taken himself off for a walk . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps he 's taken them for a holiday ? ’ |
| 5 | Obviously he had taken the opportunity whilst in the station of running through her statement . |
| 6 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 7 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 8 | And so he 's taken off the and wa wants to do |
| 9 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 10 | Nevertheless he has taken offence . |
| 11 | She 'd hoped Bernard would grow up to be a priest : now he 'd taken up with a woman . |
| 12 | He 's taken things off the floor and now he 's taken the floor up . |
| 13 | Well i I 'm not aware of how far he has taken anything on board , what I would expect as a Member of Parliament and the House of Commons , and as the leader of a party in the House of Commons , I would expect that he would want to hear what I would have to say face to face , and tell me face to face what 's wrong with what I have said . |
| 14 | But , as today he had taken the precaution of restraining his crowning glory within a Mothercare bag , he scratched his nose instead . |
| 15 | He rang off , and Harold thought how well he had taken it . |
| 16 | Well he 's taken his wings off now and joined Clerical Medical . |
| 17 | Well he 's taken us out when they 've been to bloody shop working and come back and wa I admitted that , but I mean just to go out for an evening . |
| 18 | He was known for a devout man , the lord of Parfois , a patron of pilgrims and collector of relics , and long ago he had taken the cross ; when he wanted to blaspheme he turned to his classical education and its multiple gods , and loosed his barbs at them . |
| 19 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 20 | But by then he had taken refuge in the church , and the service must have been little more than a conversation between him and old MacDiarmid , because not another soul had dared to run the gauntlet and go inside when the clock struck three . |
| 21 | Old Joseph was glad he kept the Christmas cards from his son and daughter in 1987 , for every year since then he has taken them out and displayed them as if they had come in with the post . |
| 22 | Indeed he 'd taken as much pleasure in the simple sight of her as he 'd taken in the act of love . |
| 23 | Maybe he 'd taken a course in French film as a way of learning how to pick up girls . |
| 24 | He knew that Martin had seen him and yet he had taken no notice of him . |
| 25 | Therefore he had taken what must have seemed an obvious step to protect himself . |
| 26 | Recently he has taken part in an advertisement for Skol ( amongst others ) and will be appearing in Howard 's Way , in , as he modestly called it , ‘ a walk on part . ’ |