Example sentences of "take [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 2 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 3 | It takes me a little time to get calm again . |
| 4 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 5 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 6 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 7 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think it will take them a little while to catch up again . |
| 9 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 10 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 11 | If we were sitting in a room and someone came in talking or making a noise , Dawn would panic and it would take me a few minutes to calm her down . |
| 12 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
| 13 | But well you know , it seems , that one such attempt has been ruined and rejected by the council , and it may take us a weary while to find a fair agreement and a council sobered enough and sensible enough to abide by it . |
| 14 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 15 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 16 | There 's no panacea ; er it will take us a little while to get our programmes in place and to get them producing results . |
| 17 | Even at top levels of Highlight speed it would take us a few bio-days to get there . |
| 18 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 19 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 20 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 21 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 22 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 23 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 24 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 26 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 27 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 29 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 30 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |