Example sentences of "would [verb] take [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , in August 1987 , SAVE wrote a firm and formal letter to the Secretary of State stating that , if the Department refused to list the building , SAVE would consider taking legal action .
2 A spokesman for Fife Health Board said it would have to take legal advice before any question of an appeal was considered .
3 Assessment in Catholic Religious Education would have to take great care against falling into the trap of only aiming to develop that which readily lends itself to measurement .
4 They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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