Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a long time it 'd take a long time . |
| 2 | They 'd take a long time to dry would n't they , then , on the sticks and that |
| 3 | ‘ And they 'd go a long way to ‘ elp ‘ im if ever ‘ e ‘ ad a problem . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd come a long way for a dude from Texas , and it had all been so very easy for the man with the Gary Cooper smile . |
| 5 | For sports the children would run around a local playing field , which was just down the road , they walked there under supervision of , or the children would do the long jump in the sand pit . |
| 6 | One year unemployment action plus one year adult training would achieve the long term objective for those unemployed , with special needs . |
| 7 | This would continue until about 11 pm , when they would begin the long drive home . |
| 8 | Time and time again we would begin the long task of explaining who John was and what on earth we were doing . |
| 9 | However , there is an equally wide body of opinion , expressed mainly by manufacturing industries , which oppose such a move because it believes that it would disrupt the long period of uninterrupted production between the August holiday and the Christmas break . |
| 10 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |
| 11 | The rule applies in all preconsonantal environments including those that would have a long vowel in monosyllables ( fricative and voiced obstruent environments and liquids ) , except apparently before [ s ] clusters ( as in hospital ) . |
| 12 | The government 's manifesto commitment was to increase benefit in line with prices but this does not guarantee its future after the next election , and presumably any proposals on child benefit would have a long lead-in time . |
| 13 | Perhaps that was why he had embarked , without capital , on trying to put up a building , though god knows this would have no long life in Manhattan . |
| 14 | The second alternative would take a long time to achieve . |
| 15 | Then he would move to another par of the bed , away from the cold wet patch that would take a long time to dry and leave a stiff yellow stain on the mattress . |
| 16 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 17 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 18 | Once food has cooled to 5°C or colder , if any food poisoning bacteria are present most will grow only very slowly and it would take a long time for them to reach large enough numbers to cause a problem . |
| 19 | The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety . |
| 20 | Given the long times required to charge the larger rods , you can see that after getting a first qualitative result with the smallest rods within a few weeks , a proper quantitative analysis to test the variation with rod diameter and current , and so establish the nature of the effect would take a long time . |
| 21 | Starving the defenders out seemed to be the only course , and that would take a long time . |
| 22 | She helped me as much as she could , but I knew it would take a long time to reach Estella 's level . |
| 23 | This form of socialism , based upon the accountability of the state to society rather than vice versa , would take a long time to develop , but it was this form of socialism that supporters of perestroika hoped the Party Conference would develop further — as indeed it did . |
| 24 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 25 | It would take a long time to get our grill out because I do n't think it would move any more . |
| 26 | The Eradicator may well be the solution ; tests conducted by Ray have certainly proved encouraging , and it would take a long string of coincidences to attain the results he has achieved by any other means . |
| 27 | She would take the long route back over the desolate flats . |
| 28 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
| 29 | I thought for a moment he was gathering his coat tails around him , like a woman would gather a long skirt , but it was n't that at all . |
| 30 | He would walk a long distance out to some pub , often the Malcolm Arms at Anton 's Gowt , and have lunch in the bar on beer and bread and cheese . |