Example sentences of "have taken [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At once she thought : I could have taken two thousand , three — it would come to the same thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The process may have taken two centuries The Book of Esther was probably translated only in 78/77 B.C. |
| 4 | The remaining locations should be using the new system by October this year which will then see the completion of a major personnel and data processing project which will have taken two and a half years to plan and implement . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We should have had , at best , a continuous middle-of-the-road government which could never have taken radical reforming measures . |
| 7 | An act can make a successful first LP which may have taken five or seven years for a band 's songwriters to create . |
| 8 | erm How long would it have taken five men ? |
| 9 | Angel 's parents would have taken poor lonely Tess to their hearts immediately , as they did every other lost soul , without thought of family or education or wealth . |
| 10 | I should have taken better care of you . ’ |
| 11 | Talbot would have taken long odds that he was cold sober . |
| 12 | He 's a sadistic man — he must have taken great pleasure in working over Joe last night . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He should have taken great pride in having so very much pleased the world with his choice . |
| 15 | Kold will have taken great encouragement from last weekend 's results at Wembley when his Danish players won two of the five titles , as there was undoubtedly some concern in European badminton after the Asians completely dominated the Barcelona finals . |
| 16 | Superintendent Clive Fothergill said : ‘ We would have taken appropriate measures to ensure he could have come and gone like any other team manager . ’ |
| 17 | But to go to and to go to I would have thought would have taken similar lengths of time . |
| 18 | But North Tyneside , the region 's unemployment blackspot would have taken little comfort from such news . |
| 19 | Some may have taken part-time jobs so that they could cope with the increasing demands at home , some may never have worked at all outside the home . |
| 20 | However , the position taken by the Court of Appeal loses much of its force if it can not be assumed that the House would have taken non-certified points of appeal had they been raised . |
| 21 | The journey from Marseilles to the Holy Land should have taken fifteen days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ . Of course , had the wind been very gusty before , they would already have stopped flying , or they would have taken extra precautions to make sure that there were enough people to prevent an incident . |
| 24 | They 'd been feeding her up ( according to Danielle , they would have taken extra food from the other children ) . |
| 25 | Geologists realized that the formation of the rocks and the fossils in them would have taken hundreds or thousands of millions of years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Monday dinner was always cold meat , for the washing would have taken all morning . |
| 28 | In all cases where substituted service is effected , the creditor must have taken all those steps which would suffice to justify the court making an order for substituted service of a petition ( see Section 10 below ) . |
| 29 | It would have taken first prize at the Policeman 's Ball . |
| 30 | Ann would never have taken such a step of her own accord . |