Example sentences of "took her [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 2 | Somebody was telling me it took her four years ! |
| 3 | She took her Great Dane puppy for a walk for the first time , when I say she was a puppy , she was huge . |
| 4 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 5 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 6 | Panic took her all apart , and then she gripped herself together again . |
| 7 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 8 | The funniest turn of them all took her one evening when , bent on success at all costs , she added a frothing soap powder to her immortal cheese souffle . |
| 9 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 10 | It took her less than a minute to pull on her clothes and a couple more to dress the still sleeping Kirsty . |
| 11 | Took her little boy to the hospital . |
| 12 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 13 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 14 | I took her some Loukoumi and chocolates , and she said , ‘ Now that is a sensible present . ’ |
| 15 | It took her some time to adjust to her new billing as sister to the future Princess of Wales . |
| 16 | ‘ You took her some tobacco , did n't you ? ’ was her father 's return , surly greeting . |
| 17 | It took her some time to unfasten the stiff buttons . |
| 18 | It took her some time to get used to her face without them . |
| 19 | When she stopped her feeble battering I took her some tea topped up with a couple of powdered sleeping pills . |
| 20 | It took her some time to orientate . |
| 21 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 22 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 23 | We took her some flowers and erm I eucalyptus leaves and she thought they were lovely . |