This would have been a lot easier taking her in the house.
What could be the complete form of this sentence?
Context: A few hired men are going to kidnap a girl from her school so one of them is saying this sentence becaue the school option is not the easy one it is hard but they are going to do it anyway
So what I am asking is that can we reduce the sentence-1 into the sentence-2 ?
Sentence-1 :"This would have been a lot easier if we had taken her in the house."
Sentence-2 :"This would have been a lot easier taking her in the house."