Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv] a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 2 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 3 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 4 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 5 | To tell the truth , it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was , in fact , human speech . |
| 6 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 7 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 8 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 9 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 10 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 11 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 12 | Eva said it had taken them nearly a month to get booked up . |
| 13 | It 's taken me quite a while to come up with this team and i 'm sure i 've missed some absolute wankers out , but here goes . |
| 14 | 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 . |