Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to have taken heed of the warnings contained in those anonymous horoscopes , Lissa thought morosely , fingering the disks she had prepared for Adam . |
| 2 | ‘ I must have taken leave of my senses ! ’ |
| 3 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 4 | I should have taken notice . ’ |
| 5 | point , okay that was a bit of wide ball but I might have taken offence at that . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll have to take advice , ’ said Garvin . |
| 7 | So I 'll have to take care of her . ’ |
| 8 | I could 've taken offence at that . |
| 9 | ‘ I warned you before , I 'd have to take action if you carried on as you were . |
| 10 | I thought I 'd have to take time off to look for somewhere to live , but , thanks to you , I can leave that till I 'm settled . |
| 11 | Given the chance , I suppose I 'd take the Flying Carrot to Bombay again , though by that time I 'd have taken parachute lessons . |
| 12 | But from 20 onwards , I would have to take responsibility for managing my own life . ’ |
| 13 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 14 | This is my second Way of Life seminar , so I have missed discussion which may have taken place at earlier seminars over the definition of ‘ way of life ’ . |
| 15 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 16 | It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn . |
| 17 | Latterly , they have been reduced to boasting of the spectacles they organize — the Highland Games ( in Scotland in the summer ) , the Oxbridge boat race on the Thames and the horse raced called the Grand National , which should have taken place last Saturday . |
| 18 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 19 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 20 | As we explained in our previous book , and as virtually all serious biblical scholars concur , the Gospels , in treating such issues as these , were either drastically rewritten or , more likely , distorted the events they describe — which would have taken place at least thirty years before they were composed . |
| 21 | Payments under this scheme do not affect any legal rights you may have to take action for any loss or damage sustained and do not constitute an admission of liability on our part . |
| 22 | They were all there except Christine , even Barry Morse who must have taken time off from his job , presumably to lend support to his wife and the family . |
| 23 | You must have taken leave of your senses ! b . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses indeed ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You must have taken leave of your senses , ’ Paul cried . |
| 26 | God , she must have taken leave of her senses . |
| 27 | You might have to take care of these things or just . |
| 28 | You 'll have to take mum out for a nice Indian once she feels better . |
| 29 | And you 'll have to take time to do Terry . |
| 30 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |