Example sentences of "it take [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ai n't far back to the house , but it takes ages cos we got to walk slow . |
| 2 | It takes ages because the garment has to be done in sections — it 's much easier if the shapes are all the same size . ’ |
| 3 | A My hair is so thick , it 's a hairdresser 's nightmare — it takes ages to cut and blow-dry . |
| 4 | Try running cold water into a hot bath — unless you stir it up , it takes ages to mix . |
| 5 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 6 | But it 's given you a spreadsheet it takes ages to load it |
| 7 | It takes ages to get over operations . ’ |
| 8 | that electrolysis , that 's the best way but it takes ages . |
| 9 | It takes ages ! |
| 10 | No , it takes ages down there |
| 11 | The trouble with strawberry moose is , it takes ages to make does n't it ? |
| 12 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 13 | And it takes ages to call |
| 14 | wo n't it takes ages |
| 15 | It takes ages . |
| 16 | mhm And they have to buy everything for you , and it takes ages does n't it . |
| 17 | Cos it it takes ages . |
| 18 | It takes decisions by majority vote . |
| 19 | yes the , the commission does n't seemed to of addressed itself to , to , the only question it seemed to of addressed itself to are whether the criteria objective , erm , that there could be reasons when it takes decisions and erm there should be an appeal procedure |
| 20 | I told him this and he says , Is that all it takes minutes . |
| 21 | It takes death and makes it so beautiful that dervishes hasten to it ; it takes tears and makes of them a substance more precious than pearls . |
| 22 | It is staffed by three fulltime teachers , and its aims are similar to the Arbour Project in that it provides continuing education , it takes girls through their pregnancies physically , educationally , emotionally and socially to produce healthy babies and mothers , and it tries to help girls achieve a level of maturity for taking on responsible parenthood . |
| 23 | Researched and piloted in France , Italy , and Spain , in both private and state-sector tourism schools , it takes students from low-intermediate through to intermediate level , and reflects the latest developments in the world of tourism . |
| 24 | It takes viewers through a variety of business transactions and social encounters which demonstrate language functions . |
| 25 | This is a classic finding in the history of any kind of innovation — that it takes challenges to beliefs to achieve a breakthrough . |
| 26 | Unless you are insane , it takes guts to sacrifice your whole family and die with them . ’ |
| 27 | It takes guts to break away from the ties that bind you . |
| 28 | The , the green one it takes hours to cut used to take about three hours for me to cut all the grass with that one . |
| 29 | I said , it takes hours going shopping with you ! |
| 30 | It takes requests as and when they turn up and the server deals with them and res returns the results back to the client that requested that information . |