Example sentences of "[pron] would take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of CD-ROM techniques has been of particular significance for students of texts : classics students can search the complete database of ancient literature by using the IBYCUS implementation of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae ; students of English can use the CD-ROM version of the Oxford English Dictionary to conduct searches which would take lifetimes if conducted on the twenty volumes of hard copy . |
| 2 | Town and country planning were important symbols of the more farsighted and strategic uses of planning , of necessity areas which would take years to come to full fruition . |
| 3 | Gerry Crawley , a NALGO finance spokesman , said the council was prepared to sit out the strike , but that stance was creating a nightmare scenario for the tax which would take years to clear up . |
| 4 | She would take groups to concerts , or to other churches so that they could listen to preachers of different denominations and widen their experience . |
| 5 | She would take things as they came and not worry about motives , she decided . |
| 6 | Angela Cartwright , as chairman of the local Party , explained the procedure for calling a Special General Meeting if Grunte was to be de-selected , and the meeting adjourned after Carole Swan said she would take soundings among members of the Party after the conference . |
| 7 | What he means is that the light is dreadful and only desperate hacks like me would take photos in it . |
| 8 | Sometimes they would take journalists to the front line ; sometimes they would risk their lives to help reporters . |
| 9 | The Goods had a foam wedge fitted to her bed and they would take turns to pummel her chest and back . |
| 10 | They would take turns in whacking the wedge , or piggie , into the no-man 's land between them . |
| 11 | In a statement released on Jan. 6 , leading members of the Medellín drug cartel , known as Los Extraditables , declared that they would take reprisals against the rival Cali cartel , claiming that one of the Cali leaders , Gilberto Orijuela , had hired Luis Meneses — more commonly known as Ariel Otero , the former leader of some of the most powerful right-wing paramilitary organizations in the country — to kill them . |
| 12 | ‘ He would take things on loan but he could never make up his mind . |
| 13 | He would take things as they came . |
| 14 | Now he would take things much further and see whether he could translate Ebert 's restlessness into something more useful . |
| 15 | Sir Peter Imbert , the Met Commissioner , has written to Met officers warning that he would take proceedings under the Official Secrets Act against police who break an internal discipline code which prohibits ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ . |
| 16 | He had some lovely tartan coloured rugs which I used to go and admire over at Clove Lodge , where he would take lodgings for the night . |
| 17 | I wanted to give him supper but he said he would take sandwiches up to his room and get on with his work . |
| 18 | He would take steps to put a stop to it : write to his father , to Uncle Cent at Princenhage . |
| 19 | He continued to assert that he would not live beyond the age of forty and even implied that he would take steps to ensure this . |
| 20 | He would generally lunch in one of the clubs to which he belonged ( by the end of his life , he was a member of the Athenaeum , the Garrick , and the Oxford and Cambridge ) although there were occasions when he would take guests to his favourite restaurant , L'Etoile , in Charlotte Street . |
| 21 | His great enthusiasm was for sailing and in the vacations he would take parties of students on seafaring expeditions . |
| 22 | After all , it would take ages to grow another pair . |
| 23 | I was n't so concerned with Midwinter 's security but it would take ages to phone New York . |
| 24 | It would take ages , and then someone like Willy Carson would pull out at the last minute . |
| 25 | It would take ages |
| 26 | It would take hours to drive the distance . ’ |
| 27 | It would take days to sweep the stuff away , weeks for the green to grow green again , for the dust to settle and become earth . |
| 28 | It would take days at ship speeds . |
| 29 | There would be bad , and good , effects and it would take weeks , even months , for her to assimilate them . |
| 30 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |