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 . |