Example sentences of "would [verb] taken [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
2 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
3 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
4 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
5 | Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober . |
6 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
7 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
8 | However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised . |
9 | Suffolk , who eventually beat Hertfordshire 18–15 to take runners-up spot , would have taken top honours had Clark not pulled off such an immaculate saver . |