Example sentences of "and [pron] would take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Goods had a foam wedge fitted to her bed and they would take turns to pummel her chest and back . |
| 2 | I had a slow-growing tumour in the lung and it would take time to reach obnoxious proportions , but as sure as the moon will rise and set and the tides with it , so my tumour would go on grinding away until … |
| 3 | Most of the party leaders were in any case inherited from Balfour and it would take time to find men of the new stamp , even if this were possible . |
| 4 | Macromolecules in solution are usually much smaller and it would take years for them to overcome the Brownian motion and form a sediment . |
| 5 | There would be bad , and good , effects and it would take weeks , even months , for her to assimilate them . |