Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] taken [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You should 've taken out insurance . |
| 2 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 3 | It should have taken approx 20 mins … but took 1 and a half hours ! ! |
| 4 | According to Tiw , the journey down to Moloch should have taken slightly less than two hours . |
| 5 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 6 | Had public affairs ‘ news ’ expanded space , it should have taken up 149.5 square inches as against the 92 square inches which it actually took up . |
| 7 | The SPD believed that Adenauer should have taken up opportunities for talks with the Soviets , particularly Stalin 's March 1952 proposal for a reunited but neutral Germany ( which the Western powers saw simply as a Russian bid to prevent German rearmament ) . |
| 8 | He wondered whether he should have taken up farming instead of cooking . |
| 9 | But this performance sagged at the point where it should have taken off , the Dance Song . |
| 10 | With hindsight , it is clear that we should have taken very much more serious and careful account of the character of our intake in those years . |
| 11 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 12 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 13 | Unit trust experts are mystified why this discrepancy should have taken so long to identify and the role of the trustees , Midland Bank and Coutts , who are supposed to hold the assets and keep a check on the sales and purchases . |
| 14 | ‘ One group or the other must have taken over already , Doctor , ’ Howard said . |
| 15 | And somebody must have taken over when Tatham resigned . ’ |
| 16 | During the subsequent exploration of New Zealand and Australia , Green was , in Cook 's words , ‘ indefatigable in making and calculating these observations [ for latitude and longitude ] which otherwise must have taken up a great deal of my time … |
| 17 | She turned in search of Luke but he must have taken off at Caroline 's approach . |
| 18 | It must have taken quite a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked DANGER . ’ |
| 19 | Mere was a proposal that the financial institutions should jointly fund a ‘ Money Management Association ’ , which might have taken on and developed the educational work done by the voluntary National Savings Committee . |
| 20 | Apprehensively , she worried that she might have taken on more than she could cope with . |
| 21 | She might have taken on a job as a waitress for the summer , but she was damned if she was going to let people treat her like a mindless robot because of it . |
| 22 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 23 | The primary mechanism suggested for this relationship of war with advances in social welfare is political : that the demands of total war forced government to make concessions to organised labour and the working classes in general which otherwise might have taken much longer to achieve . |
| 24 | It was somewhat of a disappointment to her vengeful mind to consider that he might have taken yesterday 's omen to heart , and prudently drawn in his horns , resigning his pretensions on her rather than venture even token opposition to the fiat of the prince and his governor . |
| 25 | He said that he had taken into account the views of local authorities put to him since he met them last year , he might have taken in to account of course , we did n't accept any of the er er observations . |
| 26 | There has been , I think has put it adequately very well , that there are members who 've turned up really for no real reason but to speak on a minor item which members of their group could 've taken on their behalf , and therefore erm , I , I do support that we need to look at that particular issue , and I think that can be dealt with under the present chairs arrange arrangement without having to have permanent chairs . |
| 27 | Of all the girls he could have taken up with in the camp , she was about the most unlikely . |
| 28 | No one seems to have asked whether the Staff College could have taken on this job , but then again such anti-intellectualism is apparent even in the Bramshill Scholars ' Association . |
| 29 | He 'd had cancer — melanoma , skin cancer — apparently a massive dose of it , and now he looked as if he could have taken on Frank Bruno . |
| 30 | Several of those hawks could have taken off and never returned , but they did not ; the falconer could rely on the training and the care she had given them . |