Example sentences of "takes [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me longer to stitch them up than to knit them and , strange as it may seem , I like turning the heels . |
| 2 | Doctor Turner takes me aside to acquaint me in funereal tones with the details of a colleague 's latest symptoms . |
| 3 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 4 | I wonder how long it takes them now to cut the roads . |
| 5 | ‘ They are all wonderful but it only takes someone else to sit in their chair and they 're off in a mood . |
| 6 | It usually takes you longer to decide whether to do either A or B than just how to do A. All I have to think of is how to do A. |
| 7 | You might wish to counter that because it takes you longer to go a smaller distance . |
| 8 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 9 | He takes it away to read in private . |