Example sentences of "take i all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 2 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 3 | She 's an ancient lass , I call her Nellie , but she can take me all the way to Sanderstown if I want a night out with bright lights . |
| 4 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 5 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 6 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 7 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 8 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 9 | It took me all day . |
| 10 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 11 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 12 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 13 | I 've eventually got there — but it 's taken me all these years , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 15 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
| 16 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |