Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
| 2 | I take 10 days to two weeks off . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't think what would happen to the shop if I take one day off . ’ |
| 4 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 5 | I brought the boat back from Bilbao in Spain on my own which took five days . |
| 6 | Baron Grimm , with whom Mozart had finally fallen out , arranged for his departure on a slow , cheap coach , which took 10 days to reach Strasbourg . |
| 7 | It was all a far cry from the first ascent of Everest 40 years ago , news of which took three days to reach London — on Coronation Day . |
| 8 | and we went down the River Nile which took three days |
| 9 | In serious cases results can be produced more quickly , but in the case of organic pollutions the analysis itself takes five days . |
| 10 | How many sugars do you take these days ? |
| 11 | Other absentees at the trial were local government officials who contravened Italian law by allowing the plant to vent directly to the outside world and others who took 16 days to evacuate Seveso . |
| 12 | Working holidays , similar to the defunct Woofer scheme ( Working Weekends on Organic Farms ) met with mixed success and varied from the chap who took all day to clean out the rabbits that I , 8½ months pregnant , did in half an hour , to those that were accompanied by their little horrors . |
| 13 | We took 3 days to get back . |
| 14 | Unfortunately for IBM , the catalogue does show up some of the problems it has pricing and delivering its own product lines — of the X-terminals in the catalogue for instance , IBM 's Xstation 130 , priced at £3,574 , is both more expensive than any of the Network Computing Devices Inc and Tandberg Data A/S models listed , and the only one to take 15 days for delivery rather than 96 hours for the rest . |
| 15 | We take one day at a time . |
| 16 | but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming |
| 17 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 18 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 19 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 20 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 21 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 22 | The regent has said , even if it takes all day , we are not to appear at the royal palace or the Savoy until we have something more to tell him ! ’ |
| 23 | and they 'll be here half an hour or three quarters of an hour , he smoked four cigarettes , now it takes all day and all night to get rid of them fumes of his cigarettes |
| 24 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 25 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 26 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 27 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 28 | IT TAKES 150 days to produce a Brooks saddle . |
| 29 | To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time . |
| 30 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |