Example sentences of "take me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Takes me that long to get them now . |
| 2 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 3 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 . |
| 6 | It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed . |
| 7 | I invented a task for myself , which would take me that way . |
| 8 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 11 | It should n't take me much more than half an hour . |
| 12 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 13 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money . |
| 15 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 16 | Oh it 's gon na take me half an hour to decide what I want now , I 'm in that kind of mood ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 21 | It took me all day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 25 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 26 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 27 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 28 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 29 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 30 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |