Example sentences of "it [modal v] have taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it may have taken them quite a lot of courage to criticize you in the first place . |
| 2 | It may have taken the prospect of mortality to bring Dr Johnson 's faculties to order , but penury seems to have done the job nicely among the nation 's museum personnel . |
| 3 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 4 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 5 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 6 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 7 | Why it should have taken more than a year for this to soak in is unclear . |
| 8 | But this performance sagged at the point where it should have taken off , the Dance Song . |
| 9 | It should have taken her places , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 10 | Had public affairs ‘ news ’ expanded space , it should have taken up 149.5 square inches as against the 92 square inches which it actually took up . |
| 11 | It should have taken approx 20 mins … but took 1 and a half hours ! ! |
| 12 | This I 'm pleased to say is being done , a meeting has been arranged with British Aerospace , it should have taken place on Monday er Mike was deputizing me at that meeting and I 'm waiting to see what the outcome of that meeting is . |
| 13 | It must 've taken quite a bit of courage for the girls to have kept their babies . |
| 14 | It must have taken her an awful lot to write those words , and they were why I felt I could go back and see her now . |
| 15 | It must have taken quite a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked DANGER . ’ |
| 16 | It must have taken Wilson years of research . |
| 17 | But , generally , one of the strengths of the book is its unusually current information , despite the time it must have taken to produce the book . |
| 18 | But it must have taken some sweet talking from Newman to persuade Mansell 's wife Rosanne to agree . |
| 19 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 20 | It must have taken years and years — ? |
| 21 | He could n't believe the strength that it must have taken . |
| 22 | It must have taken her most of an evening . |
| 23 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 24 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 25 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 26 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
| 27 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 28 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 29 | It must have taken supernatural greed |
| 30 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |