Example sentences of "would [adv] take [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , Allied troops , after years of war , would not take well to a renewal of fighting , against forces whom they had been repeatedly told were our brave allies . |
| 2 | Having become impatient , she would not take well to any delay . |
| 3 | Local Education Authorities were jealous of the autonomy that they had enjoyed since 1902 , and which had been consolidated in 1944 : they would not take kindly to being told precisely what to do , and even a persuasive circular about the organization of secondary education was too much for some of them . |
| 4 | The Bruces are violent and would not take kindly to what you are hinting ! ’ |
| 5 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 6 | Less directly but equally importantly , people living in the vicinity of a large plant would not take kindly to the idea that it was not under the control of human beings who are on the spot and are assumed to know exactly what is happening . |
| 7 | ‘ I would not take kindly to it . ’ |
| 8 | The whips , however , would not take kindly to a woman set among them . |
| 9 | Miliutin realized that landowners would not take kindly to his plan of campaign , but he felt that the government could win their support by setting up gentry committees to work out local details and by sanctioning a debate on peasant affairs in the press . |
| 10 | The area would never forget and equally would n't take kindly to some pop group dabbling in the tragedy ) . |
| 11 | He would n't take kindly to an outsider coming to interfere and poke about . |