Example sentences of "[pers pn] would have take a " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I 'd have to take a few hundred and we might get one we both agree on .
2 In any case , with the church deserted it would be quite safe I felt certain — provided there were no more nasty shocks , I 'd have to take a chance on that — to descend .
3 Sometimes , I 'd have to take a turn if someone failed to arrive , enthroning myself at the green baize table and stuffing myself with shrimp rolls and pickles , me , the killer who 'd lived on bugs .
4 Oh yeah well er well wo I 'd take a pay cut because erm well I 'd have to take a pay cut anyway , but the thing is though , with my pension with my pension from day one I ai n't gon na be too bad off anyway .
5 I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus .
6 I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft .
7 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 .
8 She 'd have to take a drink of water .
9 Well you 'd have to take a car er
10 You 'd have to take a half of it .
11 She knew she would have to take a look .
12 Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves .
13 ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain .
14 Right , we 'd have to take a look at that cos I suspect that if he says each is coloured by the host
15 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 .
16 cos it 'd have to take a long time .
17 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 .
18 After some initial success , however , the Young King 's campaign ground to a halt and Henry decided that he would have to take a hand himself .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools .
28 It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous .
29 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 . ’
30 It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough .
  Next page