Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] would take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana took her time in following her sister , and Claudia imagined she would take full advantage of her sister 's absence . |
| 2 | He estimated it would take three days a week for nine months or so , but it turned out to be very much a full time job . |
| 3 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |
| 4 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 5 | So , in closing I would to take this opportunity to apologise for a late magazine last Autumn , it was the only hiccup in the new system , and assure members that , despite losing our magazine to outsiders for a little while , it is well worth it … happy reading . |
| 6 | ‘ But then , I might have known you would take that attitude . |
| 7 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 8 | Echo Logic is n't rushing towards the Intel iAPX-86 market , estimating it would take nine months and four or five dedicated folks working on it . |
| 9 | Redlands has sold around fifty disused sites around the country for similar schemes in the last decade and insists they would take local people 's needs into account in deciding what kind of houses would be built . |
| 10 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 11 | He knew it would take great care and he knew also — inadmissible , subversive thought — that what he really wanted was to live with her here , securely , for the rest of his life : that was the earthly promise of the revelation at Hause Point . |
| 12 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 13 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 14 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 15 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 16 | BANISHED weightlifter Andrew Davies protested his innocence last night and said he would take legal action to clear his name . |
| 17 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |