Example sentences of "would have take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone would have to take sides . |
| 2 | Normally he would have taken notes , but he knew that Pickerage would be doubly uneasy if he did that . |
| 3 | A slash from Siban 's talons would have inflicted a wound which would have taken weeks to heal . |
| 4 | I would have taken pain-killers but for the danger of numbing the leg and overworking it . |
| 5 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 6 | But before the advent of data-processing capacity , the actual analyses would have taken man-years of clerical toil to complete . |
| 7 | Under the previous organisation it would have taken months of internal wrangling to resolve the conflicting aspirations of regionally based management . |
| 8 | Harley O. Staggers , a Democratic member of the House for West Virginia , initiating a bill proposing a point-of-sale background check which , whilst on the face of it more stringent than the Brady bill , was full of loopholes and would have taken years to implement . |
| 9 | ‘ Without their local knowledge and contacts it would have taken years for us to achieve what we have managed in a few months , ’ said . |