Example sentences of "[conj] it would have taken [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 2 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 3 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 4 | Over the years brambles had spread in all directions and had wound round the barbed wire , so it would have taken an axe or some other sharp tool to have gained entry , one certainly could n't have reached the top of the stairway at all . |
| 5 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 6 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 7 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |