Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |
| 2 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 3 | To take you back a wee bit before that er when you were an apprentice was your tuition from your journeymen quite good ? |
| 4 | But it took her it used to take her quite a while I suppose it would take couple of hours to make a bonny wreath would it . |
| 5 | Accordingly he disappeared into the upward-travelling lift , while she waited for one to take her down a floor where a corridor linked this building to the next one , in which the twenty-four-hour blood bank was located . |