Example sentences of "take i [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The child , now turning a smiling face towards Aggie , said , ‘ I 'll stand on the chair and that 'll take me half-way up , but you 'll have to do the rest , as I ca n't reach .
2 They 're gon na take me away anyway .
3 A hundred-odd pounds would n't take me very far .
4 No other world will take me so fully into its secret ways .
5 Of course , there are times when it 's frustrating — it can take me twice as long to find anything , for example .
6 So if I go twice as fast , does that mean it 's gon na take me twice as long to get there ?
7 ‘ My belly would n't take me that far , ’ Sally groaned .
8 Constance had barely heard of it but said , with much more confidence than she was feeling , ‘ No , but I hope Ludo will take me there soon . ’
9 ( The so-called bra half is also used and written ( To explain what purpose it serves would take me too far into the mathematical mysteries of dual vector spaces and scalar products — see Appendix , A4 . )
10 ‘ Could you please take me home now ? ’
11 ‘ Will you take me home now , please , ’ she said stiltedly .
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