Example sentences of "take [pron] [det] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 That 's put the mockers on that , you 've took them both .
2 Takes me that long to get them now .
3 It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts .
4 It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again .
5 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 .
6 It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 .
7 It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed .
8 Using his logical mind , Dustin/Sumner takes them all on , getting rid of them in various ways — with a knife , burning oil , a gun and an animal trap .
9 Colonel Gaddafi , Saddam Hussein , Spitting Image … he takes them all unflappably in his loping , courteous stride .
10 Oh the man takes them all back now over down the .
11 It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward .
12 The relationship is still going strong despite a heavy workload which takes them both all over the world .
13 If the singular universal increasingly punctuates the forward movement of Sartre 's text instead of providing it with a dialectical meaning and direction , the problem that it was invoked to solve meanwhile takes its own aberrant course .
14 Her feral body takes its own route , grinding , convulsing , swallowing .
15 Yeah , but anything she does takes her such a long time , I mean like the ironing like
16 More Sunday afternoon than Saturday night , this takes you all the way to Soho and leaves you there .
17 I mean it takes you all your time to find a good nice potato an'all
18 And it takes you all the way there ?
19 ‘ Goddess of poetry , healing and smithcraft , if she takes you that way ; and if not , enough saints of the name to see you out of any small predicament .
20 The deep flow takes you this way .
21 The route takes you several miles from any habitation , unbridged burns and rivers have to be crossed during its length and you will find yourself surrounded by some of the most delectable mountains .
22 Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet .
23 It takes you half an hour to get your card out
24 There was a low murmur of consternation round the bus and , encouraged by it , he went on , ‘ Yes , it just takes one little ting loik dat and it snarls up the traffic for da whole day ! ’
25 ‘ It sometimes takes one that way , ’ she said obscurely , hunting through her handbag for her cigarettes and lighter .
26 Now jest takes yer own time . ’
27 ‘ It always takes her some time to get ready She 'll be along later . ’
28 She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing .
29 When he 's finished someone takes him some water and he drinks it , spilling it over his face and down his chest and bare legs and feet .
30 He does the reconciling , he sees the sin , the hurts , the enormous chasm of unreconciled conflict , and he takes it all to a lonely cross .
  Next page