Example sentences of "[pron] would have take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from 20 onwards , I would have to take responsibility for managing my own life . ’ |
| 2 | I would have taken pain-killers but for the danger of numbing the leg and overworking it . |
| 3 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 4 | Just a fortnight ago , 23-year-old Jemson was on the verge of re-joining Forest in a £1million-plus swap deal which would have taken Kingsley Black to Hillsborough . |
| 5 | As we explained in our previous book , and as virtually all serious biblical scholars concur , the Gospels , in treating such issues as these , were either drastically rewritten or , more likely , distorted the events they describe — which would have taken place at least thirty years before they were composed . |
| 6 | A slash from Siban 's talons would have inflicted a wound which would have taken weeks to heal . |
| 7 | ‘ If a woman wanted to maintain the right to come back into a job she would have to take part in in-service courses to keep up to date with changes in the working world . ’ |
| 8 | But even if Kirsty had n't insisted , she would have taken part anyway . |
| 9 | After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development . |
| 10 | She would have taken Moses back to the harem where he would be brought up with others , learning to read and write the Egyptian hieroglyphic and " cursive " scripts and gaining expertise in various skills and sports ( see Acts 7:22 ) . |
| 11 | If the telephones had rung you would have taken fright . |
| 12 | Only in the later decades of the century was there a growing realization that to understand life one would have to take account of the complex interactions between all the living things occupying a particular territory . |
| 13 | Everyone would have to take sides . |
| 14 | None of the patients interviews said they would have taken paracetamol had they been aware of this danger . |
| 15 | Fabia awakened in her hotel room in Bamberg and thought that , had Cara been with her , since their destination was not so very far away now , they would have taken time out to have a look round . |
| 16 | Preston realised he would have to Take Action . |
| 17 | The right hon. Gentleman has said that in reaching his decision he would have to take account of the quality of the representations . |
| 18 | Something extra , something not foreseen , something else he would have to take care of . |
| 19 | Had he been on his own , Harry thought as he drove out of Melton Mowbray market town towards Saxby , he would have taken Mrs Appleby with him to Maythorpe House . |
| 20 | It froze again that night and everybody guessed that by morning his twisted icy body with its pathetic malformation was lying at the bottom of some gulley , where he would have taken cover from the snow and the wind . |
| 21 | Normally he would have taken notes , but he knew that Pickerage would be doubly uneasy if he did that . |
| 22 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 23 | If he had run away he would have taken Murgatroyd — he would n't have gone anywhere without Murgatroyd . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure whether he would have taken action against me if I had realised I was already in his book . |
| 25 | Summing up on the first and second reasons , it is evident that the main objection to Article 86 legislation is that business does not relish the prospect of fines for abuse of monopoly power , because it would have to take competition policy more seriously in future . |
| 26 | An improved version of the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education ( CPVE ) was on the stocks but a manager 's negotiation about it would have to take place with the City and Guilds of London Institute ( CGLI ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |
| 28 | Under the previous organisation it would have taken months of internal wrangling to resolve the conflicting aspirations of regionally based management . |