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

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1 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 .
2 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
3 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 .
4 Those who deny that have only to ask themselves who would have taken the responsibility had we failed .
5 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 .
6 It is unlikely that Eliot would have taken the trouble to defend Kipling against the charge of race superiority if he had believed in it himself .
7 It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton .
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