Example sentences of "would [verb] taken the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fact , for two pins I 'd have taken the joint out of the oven and put me 'ead in instead . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought you 'd have taken the regular boat to Sanderstown and spent a night or two there . ’ |
| 3 | Otherwise we 'd have taken the British Government to the court of human rights . |
| 4 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 5 | Normally they would have waited until such time as the national ballot had been held and then they would have taken the appropriate action afterwards . |
| 6 | More prestigious universities , showing a surer touch than the Royal Society of Chemistry , had refused to get involved with Elena , but the Romanian Embassy pointed out that she would have taken the Central London Poly for a much grander institution than it really was . |
| 7 | I can think of only one other man who would have taken the political risks involved and that was the late Sir Hugh Fraser . |
| 8 | He was reluctant but it came in the end : ‘ I 've been thinking ; if Alfie really was coming here it 's possible he would have taken the short cut like we did when we were boys . |
| 9 | Any traveller would have taken the same route as I did . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd had one drink but I would have taken the same stand if I had n't had a drink at all . |
| 11 | Where it is clear that the contract-breaker would have taken the same steps anyway the inducement is not an effective cause of the loss . |
| 12 | Mr Sands stressed that he would have taken the same view of any party who laid down such a set of pre-conditions . |
| 13 | ‘ We would have taken the same action and taken a prosecution if it had been any other film which had been shown without the consent of the licence-holder . ’ |
| 14 | A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies . |