Example sentences of "[pron] would take [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | left to me I 'd take all curtains down |
| 2 | William Bowles , ( 1705–1780 ) an Irishman who became superintendent of mines in Spain , was dismayed by the lack of unusual plants in the area and wrote to Peter Collinson from Bilbao in 1733 asking for packets of seeds and bulbous plants and continued : ‘ There is a Miller 's Dictionary in Town , so I would take some pains to give the Spaniards a taste … you know what best to send ’ . |
| 3 | I would take three classes and exercise at least another 12 hours each week . |
| 4 | This processing , which would take 2,000 hours in the Mixing Department , where labour is paid £12 per hour , would save the company additional purchasing costs of £5,000 . |
| 5 | The scene in the book where Robyn arrives at the factory for the first time and goes and has a conversation with Wilcox , that 's four pages , which would take 15 minutes in playing time if you acted it out . |
| 6 | It is envisaged that the investigation officer would be a legal officer in the Civil Service with special training , who would take full statements from parties to the dispute and any key witnesses and inspect all the documentation relevant to the case . |
| 7 | Imagine you did the entire 45-mile journey at 70 mph , you would take 41 minutes . |
| 8 | Drive it at 90 mph — and you would take 36 minutes . |
| 9 | We would take 6 men at random from the 30 men , and 4 women at random from the 20 women . |
| 10 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 11 | They would take separate holidays at least once every two years ; they would have at most two children and at a time of her choosing ; neither would publicly humiliate the other ; the spectrum of marital offences under this heading ranging from spoiling the other 's dinner-party stories to a too-public infidelity . |
| 12 | They would take long breaks , and would sometimes work slowly , leaving components in vats for longer than necessary . |
| 13 | They would take collapsible rods , a couple of guns , and have to fish and shoot to eat . |
| 14 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 15 | Because otherwise you would n't be able to it 'd take three days to clear so that 's the best way to do it . |
| 16 | This stance may have been the result of the influence of senior officers of the regular army , assisted by a warning from Black 's solicitor that he would take legal proceedings should any new statement or comment on behalf of the army be libellous . |
| 17 | The king is reported as having told the clergy that they must reproach the practice ‘ vehemently and bitterly ’ , and if this did not succeed , he would take further measures . |
| 18 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 19 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 20 | But Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said it would take 100,000 troops years to defeat the Serbs . |
| 21 | As long as the men time I mean , perhaps it would take sixty men working for half an hour . |
| 22 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 23 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 24 | Well that 's interesting , because six women do the job in eight hours , and it would take eight women to do it in six hours . |
| 25 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 26 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 27 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 28 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 29 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 30 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |