Example sentences of "[vb past] it [modal v] take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 3 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 6 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 8 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 9 | Tonight the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said it would take two patients from the airlift . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 12 | Fire chief Hugo Ernst said it could take four days to retrieve all the bodies . |