Example sentences of "[pron] take [det] day " in BNC.
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1 | How many sugars do you take these days ? |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 ! ’ |
4 | 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 |
5 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
6 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
7 | It took all day to cross the Nullarbor . |
8 | but even , it took all day to er , to get a |
9 | It took several days to confirm the outbreak and the unit was not closed until a week later . |
10 | They did n't want us to take all day about it ( hurry up ) . |