Example sentences of "would [verb] taken [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Cos he 'd have taken them to court and said well he did n't even pay it , I did ! |
2 | If they 'd got him badly wounded , they 'd have taken him away , would n't they ? ’ |
3 | Though you 'd have thought they 'd have taken it off before bringing in their things . |
4 | I think they must have had a bleeper on my car ; I never checked , and they 'd have taken it away when they caught up — damn it , it 's what I 'd have done : a simple radio bleeper with a magnet , you can stick it on in two seconds . |
5 | If I 'd had my hat I 'd have taken it off to the guy . |
6 | if it , if if I 'd have taken it to er body repair |
7 | She 'd have taken it ! |
8 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
9 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |
10 | I reckon it would 've taken you most of the night . ’ |
11 | ‘ But surely if there was difficulty and she had relations , they would have taken her back . ’ |
12 | One or two offered sympathy and would have taken her along with them , but she stayed on with her head bowed until only Sarah and the fair-haired man were left . |
13 | Even so , we would have taken her back , like the lost lamb that went astray , but she spurned our forgiveness . |
14 | And he would have taken her , or directed her . |
15 | His expression changed , and he would have taken her in his arms if she had n't moved quickly . |
16 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
17 | Chances were he would have taken her at her word . |
18 | Given a choice , you would have taken him rather than Timothy Hutton for a solicitor . |
19 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
20 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
21 | ‘ Because the flight path he was following when we first located him would have taken him to Ankara in Turkey , or some place pretty close by . |
22 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
23 | This would have taken him into working-class black dance-halls , bars , churches : more generally , by extension , into the whole network of subterranean currents beneath the bland surface of the metropolitan American musical mainstream . |
24 | Oh it 'll likely have been about Blair Gowrie or Pitlochry or some place , just anybody who would have taken him in . |
25 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
26 | He left the road at the hairpin bend which would have taken him up to Albert Terrace and followed the path through the kissing-gate to the moor . |
27 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
28 | ‘ If one of our boys was good enough to play and was not getting a chance with Yorkshire , then surely another county would have taken him . |
29 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
30 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |