Example sentences of "[pron] would take [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I would take good care to see that it was the end of your career . ’ |
| 2 | Financial management advice and services has continued to be provided by Napier University Ventures Limited and I would take this opportunity to thank Ed Angus and all his staff for the hard work and support they give to the Enterprise Centre . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | They do n't and to be dramatic they 'd be very , very silly to do so because I would take any step to avoid that happening . |
| 5 | We would take this opportunity to express our wish for continued cooperation and communication between management and staff and welcome this news sheet as a vehicle for this . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | BANISHED weightlifter Andrew Davies protested his innocence last night and said he would take legal action to clear his name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If they are moved in that order then it would take twelve operations to move from a to b . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 15 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 16 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 17 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 18 | And of course , as I 've told you , it would take some fiddle to get past Gran 's lynx 's eyes . |
| 19 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 20 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 21 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 22 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 23 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 24 | Anyone who bought Harvard 's own shares got effectively locked in , as it would take three months to sell out , on the matched bargain basis a fact not usually explained to the client at the time of sale . |
| 25 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 26 | The person gathering the data would first have to register the churches ; then they would have to go back and record the sculptures kept in each ; it would take another visit to catalogue the paintings ; another for the liturgical vestments , and so on . |
| 27 | Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin . |