Example sentences of "it would [verb] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki . |
| 2 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 3 | It could be a rewarding form of teaching to help an uninformed but well-motivated student to come to terms with poetry , but it would involve time and leisure . |
| 4 | It would save time and a little bit of money . |
| 5 | It would save time in the end . ’ |
| 6 | So colleagues if the moves of motion three one four er would come down and move their motion and with other colleagues if they would come down to the rostrum please it would save time . |
| 7 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 8 | I always knew it would take time . |
| 9 | Only kept repeating it was quite something , that he 'd have to think about it , that it would take time to assimilate . |
| 10 | He wanted her to relax into happiness — physically , mentally , spiritually — but he knew it would take time . |
| 11 | It would take time for it to pass , and require rest . |
| 12 | I had a slow-growing tumour in the lung and it would take time to reach obnoxious proportions , but as sure as the moon will rise and set and the tides with it , so my tumour would go on grinding away until … |
| 13 | It would take time to set that to rights , and make of Carlotta 's old home a palace fit for her brother to live in . |
| 14 | ‘ It would take time starving to death and it 's not a dignified way of dying , ’ he said . |
| 15 | They also felt that specialist workers could pass on skills and ideas to others , but it would take time . |
| 16 | Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible . |
| 17 | It would take time to explain . ’ |
| 18 | Henry 's replies were equally blunt ; he offered help but said it would take time and , if matters should prove too difficult , she was to return immediately to England . |