Example sentences of "it take me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find it very depressing because it takes me away from the constructive side of the business and into being a sort of financial PR and being defensive . |
| 2 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 3 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 4 | When I wake up , I know summat 's up when I open my eyes and see it 's all bright , but it takes me a minute to remember where I am . |
| 5 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 6 | It takes me a little time to get calm again . |
| 7 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 8 | It takes me a bit to remember where I am . |
| 9 | It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 . |
| 10 | It takes me about three to six months to obtain a pair and then I have to have what is on offer . |
| 11 | When we do find one , it takes me and my tech about a month to get it into shape for going out with the band . ’ |
| 12 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 13 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 14 | IT TAKES me ages to find Julian Cope 's secluded hideaway in a remote coastal area of North West Scotland . |
| 15 | The way it takes me , my mania , is a compulsion to spend money . |
| 16 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 17 | It takes me another two hours to reach the top , which provides a view down into the crater which looks , from this height , like a small , almost perfectly oval park with artfully sited clumps of trees and lakes . |
| 18 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 19 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 20 | In a wedding photograph , the interesting faces are not those of the bride and groom , but of the encircling guests : the bride 's younger sister ( will it happen to me , the tremendous thing ? ) , the groom 's elder brother ( will she let him down like that bitch did me ? ) , the bride 's mother ( how it takes me back ) , the groom 's father ( if the lad knew what I know now if only I 'd known what I know now ) , the priest ( strange how even the tongue-tied are moved to eloquence by these ancient vows ) , the scowling adolescent ( what do they want to get married for ? ) , and so on . |
| 21 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 22 | However long it takes me to finish my job . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And I do n't return night after night to the flat — largely thanks to the fact that I am footloose and fancy-free , I can follow my job wherever it takes me . ’ |
| 24 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 25 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 26 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 27 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 28 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 29 | It takes me places that I thought I 'd never see |
| 30 | And er , as you 'll see , probably next week 's , I 'm not going to get to this now , er , next week , or possible the week after , even , depending on how long it takes me to get there , I will suggest to you that the revolution now taking place in behavioural science , does suggest wh what they are , and that there are in fact some deeply countering intuitive insights , erm , into this whole issue , which have only emerged in the last few years . |