Example sentences of "[adv] take me " in BNC.

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1 ( Eg I got 2 pounds of a cop ticket for wimbledon — meaning I can see a match for 5.50 ) It only takes me going to 5 matches like this and I 've got good value for my initial investment .
2 No , it only takes me about forty minute , no hold on !
3 I 'll always honour and obey you , Harry , and I 'll do anything you say or go anywhere you want if you 'll only take me for a wife . "
4 ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes …
5 That way there would be plenty of decent players for each team and it would only take me a couple of hours per week to sort out .
6 It 'll only take me five minutes .
7 ‘ You 'd better take me to the station , then .
8 ‘ You 'd better take me to this Wyrmberg of yours , had n't you ? ’
9 I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before .
10 Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill .
11 But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu .
12 Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local .
13 Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates …
14 Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates …
15 It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job .
16 I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er
17 hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye
18 Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital .
19 I 've just took me blooming jacks .
20 It just takes me out of the house for an hour or two . ’
21 I have told him he is n't the same man I married any more and he just takes me for granted .
22 Ca n't you just take me back to the life your friends stole me from ? ’
23 It just took me aback . ’
24 I had a marvellous ride all the way round and he just took me into the lead .
25 It just took me back , that 's all .
26 ‘ To begin with the police would n't touch me , they just took me home to my parents .
27 She just took me in , and I ca n't explain it . ’
28 Not just taking me for a ride ? ’
29 ‘ You 've already taken me on a tour of Rome .
30 Just take me home , please . ’
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