Example sentences of "would take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew L. would take a holiday sometime . |
| 2 | The ideal should be a circular seat but I felt it would take a considerable amount of timber with a lot of waster so I opted for an hexagonal shape . |
| 3 | This always used to happen in older ballets when the hero would take a step forward with a slight stamp before he ‘ swore to marry ’ the heroine . |
| 4 | Initially , a swift , artistically rough job was contemplated , a ‘ tendentious piece ’ which would take a few months to write and would enrage ‘ the nihilists and Westerners ’ and set them ‘ howling about me that I 'm a retrograde . |
| 5 | Nevertheless the Cuk converter topology seems likely to remain an outsider until a true trade-off comparison can be made between Cuk and Buck at a series of realistic equivalent performance levels , a task that would take a lot of time , but whose results would be of great interest to many in the power supply design field . |
| 6 | Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell . |
| 7 | I parked the jeep under a tree and then , looking at my watch , I decided that as I had a couple of hours to spare I would take a walk across to the other bridge where I had noticed a café on our first day into Normandy . |
| 8 | The second alternative would take a long time to achieve . |
| 9 | Other things being equal among candidates , Magdalene College would take a Magdalene man before a Jesus man . |
| 10 | We 'd ring up the police , who would take a bunch of these youths into the same exit and do'em over . |
| 11 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 12 | A National Film Studio , combining the small companies into one strong conglomerate , had been proposed , but this idea made no more headway than a proposal to negotiate a reciprocity deal with the Americans , whereby they would take a certain number of British films into national distribution in return for free access to British screens . |
| 13 | Confidence would falter , stockmarkets would take a hammering , talk of a meek and mild recession in America would stop . |
| 14 | Major-General Viktor Filatov , the editor of a Soviet military journal , prophesied this month that the Americans would take a pasting once the ground fight began . |
| 15 | It would take a bold , reforming chancellor and an economy where everything was going right . |
| 16 | In cricket they used to put her at ‘ long leg ’ where the ball hardly ever penetrated , and she would take a book and lie down to read in the long grass . |
| 17 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 18 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 19 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 20 | Nineteenth-century feminism had no desire at all to reject biological determinism ; and I would argue that even today , it would take a leap of imagination to put anything in its place . |
| 21 | It would take a predator the size of an eagle to do that , and this was not exactly the highlands of Scotland . |
| 22 | If the books really were priceless , Mungo thought , this would take a century . |
| 23 | Then he would move to another par of the bed , away from the cold wet patch that would take a long time to dry and leave a stiff yellow stain on the mattress . |
| 24 | From your heart would take a tear , |
| 25 | That would take a good hour and kill the time . |
| 26 | ‘ The surveyor would take a judgment as to whether the test was professionally sound , but not on the suitability of the test , ’ Britton said . |
| 27 | Climate and national character apart — and Mediterranean joie de vivre is not a quality found in the typical Briton , except when he is drunk — it would take a revolution to make Britain 's cities as enjoyable as those of our European neighbours . |
| 28 | Mr Ramsay said sorting out Mr Bond 's finances would take a team of accountants at least a year , with the investigation stretching around the world . |
| 29 | She would take a few drops directly into the mouth using the pipette whereas previously she had used a teaspoon direct from the 100ml bottle . |
| 30 | Our newsletter would take a large slice of the membership fees if we did not have our advertisers . |