Example sentences of "[pron] would have taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 2 | McGregor wrote that ‘ since no important decision ever pleases everyone in the organisation , he must also absorb the displeasures , and sometimes severe hostility , of those who would have taken a different course ’ . |
| 3 | And everything would have taken a different turn . |
| 4 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 5 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 6 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 7 | well I mean I 'm not surprised they do n't wan na take a picture of our garden cos it 's a mess but er I 'd have thought he would have taken a picture of yours and sold you one . |
| 8 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 9 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 10 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 11 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 12 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 13 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 14 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 15 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 16 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 17 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 18 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 19 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 20 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 23 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 24 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |