Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes in the vicin I I did n't know the cupboards were near the bed , but yes , in relation to the bed those two places would it have taken a fraction of a second to strip off the duvet to check what was under it . |
| 2 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 3 | That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly . |
| 4 | The parent company , perhaps in France or in the USA , will probably have taken a portfolio of beauty pictures when the products were initially launched in their home country . |
| 5 | The cost of this exercise was considered prohibitive , and the time factor to effect the alterations involved had it been financially acceptable , would have taken a couple of years . |
| 6 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 7 | Looking back on it now , I should have taken a group of youngsters to grow on and not the adults . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 10 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the top of the scale , business must have taken a number of leading men out of town at the time the assessment was made , including , for example , Robert Thorne , Merchant Taylor and a notable benefactor to the City ; worth more than £20,000 at the time of his death in 1532 , he must have been one of the very richest men in England . |
| 13 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 14 | If only could have stayed behind to hear this being said , he could 've taken a lot of messages back to his friends in government . |