Example sentences of "would take [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two years , however , Gordon too got the wanderlust urge and planned a horse-back ride from South America to New York that would take him two years . |
| 2 | It would take him three days to reach Tracy with a small army and cumbersome siege machines slowing him down — what did one hour more or less matter ? |
| 3 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 4 | It seemed a forlorn hope that any taxi-driver , especially with the limitation of petrol-rationing , should consider a fare which would take him seven miles out of the town on New Year 's Eve , but incredible luck was with us ! |
| 5 | His heart sank when he saw where his questionings would take him next . |
| 6 | They estimated that it would take them four months to build the cells , the measuring equipment and constant temperature baths . |
| 7 | It was estimated that it would take them two to three weeks to get to the Falklands and therefore , theoretically , the decision could be rescinded if there were some kind of diplomatic breakthrough . |
| 8 | And King is seeking quality crosses as Tranmere bid for a Prenton victory that would take them third in the first division . |
| 9 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 10 | They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time . |
| 11 | Denethor clearly will not submit to the Enemy , as Saruman did , but he also cares nothing in the end for his subjects , while his love even for his sons would take them both to death with him . |
| 12 | So it would take her two increments into scale two . |
| 13 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 14 | Although Aith lifeboat had been launched it would take her some time to reach the island , so Mr Williamson spoke by radio to four fishing vessels at the scene . |
| 15 | I invented a task for myself , which would take me that way . |
| 16 | It would take me two weeks to reveal all that I know . ’ |
| 17 | So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour . |
| 18 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 19 | ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money . |
| 20 | It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them . |
| 21 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 22 | Moodie said afterwards : ‘ I was determined to get a good start which would take me clear of the pack . |
| 23 | ‘ It would take you two days at least . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd rather you risk your neck than me , but if it 's a question of time you 're justified ; it would take you two good hours and more to work your way about . ’ |
| 25 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 26 | I would take it easy and avoid a repetition of the day before . |
| 27 | He would have to build himself up , because the change would take it all out of him . |
| 28 | He sensed that she would take it black and sugarless and he was right . |
| 29 | With our three kids , all under six , settled in their beds we considered the next stage , which would take us 370 miles further to our destination . |
| 30 | He would take us all day for 1,000 bhat . |