Example sentences of "they would take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 3 | At each stop they would take one side of the street each and he could not help notice the disappointment on people 's faces if they got him rather than her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They would take long breaks , and would sometimes work slowly , leaving components in vats for longer than necessary . |
| 6 | Each would require a portable bedstead , an air mattress and a pillow ; they would take some Oxley 's essence of ginger , some good opium , quinine and Seidlitz powders ; a portable inkstand , a match-box and supply of German tinder ; umbrellas against the sun and flannel belts to ward off cramps of the stomach during the night . |
| 7 | Besides , she had said , perhaps they would take more time repairing the heating system if they knew the two of them were able to keep warm without it . |
| 8 | Redlands has sold around fifty disused sites around the country for similar schemes in the last decade and insists they would take local people 's needs into account in deciding what kind of houses would be built . |
| 9 | They would take collapsible rods , a couple of guns , and have to fish and shoot to eat . |