Example sentences of "would have taken [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was going to tell him , if he was to come over , take my car there when I 'd have taken this car over , I would have had a car to come back . |
| 2 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 3 | At thirty-one , he remarks to Louise — a parenthesis to a hypothesis — that if he had ever had a son , he would have taken great pleasure in procuring women for him . |
| 4 | For a soft-shoulder Sunday mechanic like me it would have taken all day , but most of the jobs are incredibly simple to the man who can , who served his time with Ford and spent years at London Transport . |
| 5 | Monday dinner was always cold meat , for the washing would have taken all morning . |
| 6 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 7 | Yes I think that may be right my Lord , indeed er if we succeed on the way out , get get out of the contract point then of course the plaintiff 's case is that they would have taken that advice and would not have entered into the contract a and therefore on that basis they are entitled to be compensated on the basis that all the losses they unnecessarily incurred by having , being forced to complete , should be recoverable , subject to er litigation of loss and . |
| 8 | But North Tyneside , the region 's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news . |
| 9 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 10 | I should hope that anyone of lesser climbing ability that Mr Lee would have taken one look at the gully and decided that conditions were unfavourable . |
| 11 | Almost all freeholders would have taken strong exception to the suggestion that their support had been purchased , and this was as true of those gentlemen who had recently obtained posts for themselves or their sons as it was for those who had been less fortunate . |
| 12 | Later ages have tended to magnify the importance of those thinkers and poets who disagreed ; there is no reason to think that the young Wordsworth would have taken any notice of them ; he believed with his University that whatever Newton said , was right . |
| 13 | But it would have taken more courage than I could muster . |
| 14 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 15 | Either arbitration or litigation would have taken more time and cost more money than a successful reference to an expert . |
| 16 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |
| 17 | Whether , of course , I would have taken this view were I to have had someone in my squadron who turned LMF is open to question , When I reflect on the young aircrew that I helped to train in 1940 at Kinloss , some 10 years younger than myself , I marvel that the conversation stage was the last stint before they were to confront a highly lethal opponent . |
| 18 | I do n't know how a first-century slave would have taken this directive to regard work as service to Christ ; but I can imagine some twentieth-century slaves thinking such sentiments run sharply against the grain . |
| 19 | As part of that appraisal , you would have taken some view . |
| 20 | Whereas years ago , it would have taken some time for that come by by which time it was no longer news , and people shrugged their shoulders and say well , |