Example sentences of "[vb infin] taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you tackle it along the lines suggested in this booklet , you will have taken a step towards reducing the appalling costs the problem imposes on all of us . |
| 2 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 3 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 4 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 5 | ‘ When I got back I found I had left the garden door a little ajar ; she must have taken a chill . |
| 6 | It would all have taken a fair time . ’ |
| 7 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 8 | As it is , Mr Major could think long and reappoint Mr Lamont , who has borne the enormous strain of knowing that , if the Tories had lost , he would have taken a substantial part of the blame . |
| 9 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 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 | Tom never should have taken a driver because there 's a lot of trouble near the hole ( 316 yards , par-4 ) . |
| 12 | They clearly felt he should have taken a more manly approach to the brain tumour . |
| 13 | Oh , Jessie , of all the people you could have taken a fancy to in this world you 've got to go and pick one of the Feltons . |
| 14 | I think I must have taken a wrong turning somewhere , because we 're certainly not at Threlkeld , where we ought to be by now . |
| 15 | Casting into the gap between the willows would have been difficult but I would have taken a bigger net of fish , with a couple of sizeable ones maybe , for I could have hauled each fish out of the swim immediately it was hooked and kept disturbance down to a minimum . |
| 16 | The formation of liberal thought by those who normally might have taken a pride in never bothering to think at all was remarkable . |
| 17 | Most will have taken a Foundation course in Art and Design , but applicants from a wide range of backgrounds are welcome , including those applying direct from sixth forms . |
| 18 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 19 | If the scientists succeed , they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices . |
| 20 | We know that they brought other domestic animals with them but it is inconceivable that they would have taken a wild cat from the mainland . |
| 21 | It may well be pointed out that he could have taken a safer route but this was not possible . |
| 22 | ‘ You should have taken a sleeping pill . ’ |
| 23 | Lord Lane would have taken a dim view , consent or no consent . |
| 24 | That was how close it was , and as Emerson once said to me , he learned that weekend , sweating out the last half-hour before the start , that when you 're running for the championship , you simply ca n't give anything away : give Stewart an inch and he would have taken a yard . |
| 25 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 26 | He must have taken a thousand pictures with people . |
| 27 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 28 | He must have taken a shine to the jacket because he turned the corner — and never came back leaving the police red-faced . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |