Example sentences of "and it take [pers pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 2 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 3 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 4 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 5 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 6 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |