Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have taken [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 3 | More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was . |
| 4 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 5 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 6 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 7 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 8 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 9 | It would have taken no additional effort to assemble a selection representative of the period and presenting a new view of many leading artists ' activities and styles applied to this medium . |
| 10 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 11 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 12 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 13 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 14 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |