Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken me " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 2 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 11 | He must have taken me there . |
| 12 | ‘ In that case , you should never have taken me out sailing in the first place ! ’ |
| 13 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 14 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
| 16 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |