Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 2 | He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square . |
| 3 | That morning Dad told his favourite story again , the story of his drive along the coast with Kay , only this time he took it one stage further , down from the cliffs and into the house . |
| 4 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 5 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 6 | Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick . |
| 7 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 8 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 12 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 13 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 14 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 15 | However , it took me two or three weeks to learn them , to pick them up . |
| 16 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 17 | It took me six turns to get it , get it reversed in . |
| 18 | it took me five times |
| 19 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 20 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 21 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 22 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 23 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 24 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 25 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 26 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 28 | It took me three or four minutes to coax Dawn into a short flight . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |