Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 2 | ‘ But surely if there was difficulty and she had relations , they would have taken her back . ’ |
| 3 | Any one of them might have taken her away . |
| 4 | What I 'm saying is that he would n't have taken her out into the woods . |
| 5 | One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left . |
| 6 | ‘ Tomorrow , I could have taken her tonight , you know , being a DI . |
| 7 | I 'd not have taken her in … ’ |
| 8 | Even so , we would have taken her back , like the lost lamb that went astray , but she spurned our forgiveness . |
| 9 | Otherwise there would n't have been a chance for someone with such a large family , almost any of whom could have taken her in . |
| 10 | And where would he have taken her ? |
| 11 | ‘ You should have taken her to the clinic , Rachaela , ’ she said , without accusation . |
| 12 | And he would have taken her , or directed her . |
| 13 | Like one of the marauding buccaneers who used to terrorise the Mediterranean coasts , he could have taken her there and then , and she could have done little to stop him . |
| 14 | But yes , she has something or I would not have taken her . |
| 15 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 16 | His expression changed , and he would have taken her in his arms if she had n't moved quickly . |
| 17 | I imagine it would n't have taken her long to captivate you . |
| 18 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You should n't have taken her like that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I would never have taken her if I 'd thought it would upset her . ’ |
| 21 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
| 22 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 23 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 24 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
| 25 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 26 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 27 | I was eleven years old , and I honestly believe that I was too young to cope , that my father should never have taken me to the game , that if he had been a responsible parent he would have recognized the potential for trauma that the afternoon contained . |
| 28 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 30 | If I had had a car of my own I would have offered her a lift , however far out of my way it might have taken me . |