Example sentences of "would [vb infin] taken me " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
2 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
3 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
4 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
5 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
6 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
7 | ‘ Not so many years ago it would have taken me a little longer myself . |
8 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
9 | It 's tremendous really , it 's an unbelievable relief for me , it would have taken me months to get used to a new cue , that 's the only cue I 've ever had er since I started playing eight years ago . |