Example sentences of "have taken [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming he could not afford the luxury of a high-speed post-chaise , William Charles may have taken one of the coaches which left the George in Frome for the Bell Sauvage in Ludgate Hill on Sundays , Tuesdays and Thursdays at 3 o'clock in the afternoon . |
| 2 | I ca n't believe he would have taken much of its meaning . |
| 3 | The fresh toned singing of such favourites as Alouette , A-roving and the Skye Boat Song must have taken many of the audience back to their own school days . |
| 4 | Stephen Glover could have taken either of two ‘ angles ’ : a bitchy , scandal-strewn insider 's account , which might have appealed to a small audience of fellow scribblers and media junkies ; or a description of what it takes to launch a high-profile business in the teeth of fierce competition , which might have interested those thousands of readers who do not drink at London 's Groucho Club . |
| 5 | Lewenthal 's and Danon 's performances , now ( my goodness ! ) thirty years old , were recorded in the teeth of the dehaut-enbas prejudice of the day and , although their earnest approach loses a little spontaneity in the making of their point , they must have taken some of Gershwin 's critics by the scruff of their ears . |
| 6 | The right to hear ambassadors , and other foreign speakers like Alcibiades , was an important prerogative of the Assembly , and it is here that Spartan foreign policy must have taken some of the dramatic about-turns attested in the classical period — though technically the Assembly could only decide and not debate ( Ar . |
| 7 | She should have visited her more often , should have taken more of an interest in her — and just wait until she went around to Eliza Grierson 's ! |
| 8 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |