Example sentences of "take [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 2 | It takes about one hour for the mite to bury itself in the skin . |
| 3 | For most people , it takes about one hour for the liver to reduce blood alcohol by 15ml/100ml . |
| 4 | It takes about one hour for the alcohol from a drink to reach its peak concentration in the blood . |
| 5 | The camcorder takes about one second to begin recording after you press the button . |
| 6 | Backing up your data is vital , so book a lunch date if you choose level two , because it takes about one minute per megabyte of hard disk space to set up . |
| 7 | It is reckoned that Step 1 normally takes about one year to grasp and accept in its full significance . |
| 8 | It takes about one month to commission each machine with the next one being delivered in October and another before the end of the year , when once again Stoddard 's team will be visiting the States . |
| 9 | In other words , in the time it takes for one murder on the crime clock , six workers have died ‘ just trying to make a living ’ ! ’ |
| 10 | Between your two easy days , find a hill that takes from one and a half to two minutes to run . |
| 11 | The event takes in one lap of the famous TT course and 12 laps of a seven miles circuit , coming down each time along the promenade . |
| 12 | The finale he takes at one of the fastest speeds on record ( 1'08 ’ ) , creating , without recourse to pedal haze and with only the slightest dynamic gradations within Chopin 's requested sotto voce e legato , as haunting an impression of the eerie intangibility of eddying ‘ wind over graves ’ as you could ever hope to hear from human fingers . |
| 13 | But , as a general guideline , the initial consultation ( the one which includes the regression itself ) will probably take about one hour . |
| 14 | The director said that it would take between one and two weeks for the Soviet Union to send the forces it is currently pulling out , back into eastern Europe . |
| 15 | First , it can take between one and two years to negotiate a contract . |
| 16 | The time it takes to receive local land charge search results varies greatly depending upon the particular local authority and can take between one and four weeks to obtain . |
| 17 | In his cluttered roof-void office-cum-spare bedroom , where clothes dry under the skylight and ergonomics is too big a word to fit in , he writes massive chunks of operating software for mainframe computers , programmes which can take between one and a half and ten ‘ man years ’ to complete . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had about all I can take for one day . ’ |
| 19 | The disbelief was common to all those at Old Trafford , who could barely take in one of the most dramatic domestic transfers of all time . |
| 20 | A luncheon to talk about nail care and nail care products might take in one representative of each of the following types of publication : general women 's interest magazines , teenage publications , DIY magazines , holiday magazines , regional newspaper , London office women 's editors , retirement publications and secretarial magazines . |
| 21 | I did n't take in one word of French . |
| 22 | Before that though let's just er take in one of tonight 's Coca Cola Cup replays , as Shrewsbury have another chance to perform a giant killing act in that competition . |
| 23 | What , however , caused almost universal consternation was my suggestion that we should go a stage further and see whether it was possible to introduce ‘ portable ’ pensions — pensions which you could take from one job to another . |
| 24 | We did not take to one another ; whatever the circumstances had been , I do not imagine we would have made friends . |
| 25 | Barry made an agitated sighing noise which I did n't take to one bit . |
| 26 | After school , I had to get practise and it took about one and a half hours to get there . |
| 27 | And the other thing of course was that one movement , which took about one second , right and you would n't have a loom , one movement of this machine where the needles go up , take the yarn , knitted a hundred stitches , two hundred stitches , what whatever number of stitches were on that particular piece of fabric , the width . |
| 28 | I believe in the case of these baths it took about one man year to do that transformation . |
| 29 | Goods trains coming from the Baltic to Moscow took between one and four weeks , a distance that was covered in fourteen hours by passenger trains . |
| 30 | ‘ Leo , she said warningly , ‘ I have had as much as I intend taking for one day . |