Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have take a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs . |
| 2 | In any case , with the church deserted it would be quite safe I felt certain — provided there were no more nasty shocks , I 'd have to take a chance on that — to descend . |
| 3 | Oh yeah well er well wo I 'd take a pay cut because erm well I 'd have to take a pay cut anyway , but the thing is though , with my pension with my pension from day one I ai n't gon na be too bad off anyway . |
| 4 | I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus . |
| 5 | She 'd have to take a drink of water . |
| 6 | You 'd have to take a half of it . |
| 7 | She knew she would have to take a look . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Right , we 'd have to take a look at that cos I suspect that if he says each is coloured by the host |
| 10 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 17 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 18 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 19 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 24 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
| 25 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |
| 26 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |