Example sentences of "would take a [adj] " 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 | We 're absolutely delighted that you 're here in Portsmouth for your congress and it 's very very important to us and I think perhaps I 'd take a little bit of time to explain why it 's important . |
| 4 | I 'd take a local job , doing anything , before I 'd uproot her . ’ |
| 5 | You 'd take a lovely walk down the field and then suddenly you 'd be up to your knees in a bog . |
| 6 | The children surged dogwards , with mingled shrieks of condolence and joy , only to be hurled back by my even higher-decibel commands not to venture o'er the noisome swamp , which I gallantly traversed to unwind the stupid restrainer from the poor dog 's jaws , wondering the while if he 'd take a justified revenge on the human race by biting me ; which he did n't . |
| 7 | It would take a separate book to give all of the tragic accounts of the killings , and , in any case , this has already been done . |
| 8 | It would take a great deal more than flagrant attempts to assassinate people in Western capitals and the hardly less obvious espionage of the Directorate of External Intelligence to make Nicolae Ceauşescu persona non grata in the West . |
| 9 | A double-furrow plough would take a great chunk of the money in his possession , and he had worked out it would need at least four great horses , not three , to carry out the intended task . |
| 10 | Well my Lord as a time saver it would quite er how my er learned friend went through the documents , i it in the contents she would otherwise make and one suspects that it would take a great deal longer . |
| 11 | I would take a stand-up bath in Mick 's washing-up bowl , wash all my clothes , clean every item of equipment , and wipe the wheelbarrow , lockers and the groundsheet with disinfectant . |
| 12 | From this he calculated the time it would take a sated bat to starve to death , the time it would take an empty bat to starve to death , and all intermediates . |
| 13 | Dawn seems hostile enough already , but if she were to marry him she would take a proprietorial interest in his practice . |
| 14 | Julie decided to top up her Californian suntan until Kitty Summerville called lunch , after which she would take a casual stroll to another of her favourite haunts as a child , the old summer house on the river bank . |
| 15 | Last night Shaunagh 's father Sean McMurtry said the family was determined to see justice done , and would take a civil prosecution against the two doctors . |
| 16 | So , if South Korea were attacked today by the inferior ground forces of North Korea plus their Air Corps , I feel that South Korea would take a bloody nose . |
| 17 | It is likely that the court would take a similar attitude to attempts to stop appointments by other bodies . |
| 18 | His own love of stories , though real enough , was private , almost furtive — he was a dedicated reader of the Sherlock Holmes stories , for example — but it would take a sharp eye , and a good memory , to notice the quotation from Conan Doyle 's ‘ The Musgrave Ritual ’ buried in his pre-war play Murder in the Cathedral . |
| 19 | Critics claim the technology is 1980s passe and not for Unix and that it would take a tremendous amount of engineering to make it suitable for modern enterprise-wide client/server applications that demand object-oriented solutions . |
| 20 | If nurses were as careful with time as they tend to be with money , their professional effectiveness would take a meteoric rise ’ . |
| 21 | The result is that every ledge , from those that would take a small tent to those that a modern rock climber would blanch to see , is packed with birds . |
| 22 | She had already thrown yesterday 's damp tea-leaves on to the parlour carpet , and when she had finished in the surgery would take a small , hard hand-brush and , down on her knees yet again , would painstakingly sweep them all up into a dustpan , to remove the previous day 's dirt and dust , Miss Mates said , and purify the air . |
| 23 | The second alternative would take a long time to achieve . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Most of these solutions would take a long time to implement . |
| 26 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It would take a long , long time to heal , if ever . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The English host was able to cross unhindered , although it would take a long time to do so in its entirety . |