Example sentences of "would [verb] taken [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Boris had known they were n't rubies , he 'd have taken that instead . ’ |
| 2 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 3 | I ca n't believe he would have taken much of its meaning . |
| 4 | For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport . |
| 5 | Monday dinner was always cold meat , for the washing would have taken all morning . |
| 6 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 7 | Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and . |
| 8 | Surely any thief would have taken that ? |
| 9 | But North Tyneside , the region 's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news . |
| 10 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 11 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 12 | But she would have taken more pains than I ( and far more than Roger ) not to hurt them . |
| 13 | But it would have taken more courage than I could muster . |
| 14 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 15 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |
| 16 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 17 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 18 | He wished he 'd hung from the rail and reduced the distance , but that would have taken several seconds to set up and his pursuer had already been half-way across the room . |
| 19 | I do n't know how a first-century slave would have taken this directive to regard work as service to Christ ; but I can imagine some twentieth-century slaves thinking such sentiments run sharply against the grain . |
| 20 | More detailed questioning might have revealed whether the soldier 's discourse would have taken this argumentative tack . |
| 21 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 22 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 23 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |