Example sentences of "[conj] it would have taken " 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 | But you know it 's funny how why it was so I mean the grit and those were quite sharp you know You you 'd have thought that it would have taken your skin but then it was ideal stuff for getting the grease the you know the dirt and I mean the the greasy dirt away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He could have stuck pins into himself and it would have taken ten seconds for his body to complain . |
| 8 | However , he said : ‘ The case we would have put had already been voiced March and it would have taken two months for the appeal to be heard during which time there would be no money coming in to provide council services , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If Peel had not got into it I think it would have still been well received but it would have taken longer , ’ says Gedge . |
| 12 | We could have done this without the Support Force but it would have taken longer to do . ’ |
| 13 | But it would have taken more than me to convince Harold Wilson that this was so and that conspiracies were not afoot . |
| 14 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 15 | But it would have taken more courage than I could muster . |
| 16 | But it would have taken more than just time and ingenuity . |
| 17 | He could have called and have someone come to get him , but it would have taken longer , and he wanted to see her now . |
| 18 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 19 | She came with me for no reason at all , whereas it would have taken quite a few other PCs to shift her . |
| 20 | This has sleeping-room for one , even though it would have taken two shepherds to carry it , leaving you to wonder how the odd shepherd out spent the night . |
| 21 | In this way he looked like defending it , though it would have taken only seconds to turn their guns in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |