Example sentences of "[pron] would have take [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus .
2 The only practical problem at the time was that I would have to take the orchestra on its American tour in the first months of 1955 at a time when I was contracted to conduct a new Ring cycle at La Scala , Milan .
3 We rented a plot of land and so I would have to take the meal out to my husband at mid-day .
4 Consequently the locomotive was returned to Bridgnorth and was not able to fulfil its Red Rose run on Monday September 23rd , which would have taken the locomotive from Crewe to Carnforth where it was to have had two south-bound outings on Cumbrian Mountain Expresses of October 26th and November 16th .
5 She knew she would have to take a look .
6 Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves .
7 But soon , yes , she would have to take the telegram and walk to the shop and watch Enid fainting and Mother rustling out from behind the counter .
8 She realised that she would have to take the initiative , or she 'd be sitting there forever .
9 Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind !
10 She would have taken the cat with her if she 'd done that . ’
11 Those who deny that have only to ask themselves who would have taken the responsibility had we failed .
12 In fact , of course , we can not even measure what the initial state was , because to do so we would have to take the brain apart .
13 I mean you like the ordinary houses are , there 's no room and you could not bend the coffin with a person in it so they would have to take the window or the bedroom or wherever the corpse was
14 Had either of the teams won , they would have taken the League leadership .
15 Erm you 'd have thought that they would have taken the trouble to erm you know to do some bit of arm twisting .
16 Iro has been in poor form for the Sea Eagles and was told several weeks ago that he would have to take a pay cut to stay with the club .
17 After some initial success , however , the Young King 's campaign ground to a halt and Henry decided that he would have to take a hand himself .
18 But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk .
19 That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard .
20 well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one .
21 If Yuri Rudakov , undressing in the front bedroom of their bungalow , had not been so tired , he would have taken the time to admire the new nightdress that his wife wore as she sat against the pillows and turned the pages of a picture magazine .
22 This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home .
23 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
24 It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer .
25 He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off .
26 It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough .
27 Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did .
28 It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place .
29 In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart .
30 But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria .
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