Example sentences of "[pers pn] takes some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
2 | And every time a diatom is taken out of the plankton , it takes some N and P with it . |
3 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
4 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
5 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
6 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
7 | It takes some people a time to realise that the inside facelets are never seen , to see that all the faces can turn and that there are several distinct types of pieces . |
8 | ‘ Awful how it takes some people . ’ |
9 | It takes some nerve , and it seems as though I am eradicating what I have , but the white ‘ sinks ’ and through practice it is possible to judge the correct strength . |
10 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
11 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
12 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
13 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
14 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
15 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
16 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
17 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
18 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
19 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |
20 | It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’ |
21 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
22 | All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green . |