Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | How many sugars do you take these days ? |
| 5 | We took 3 days to get back . |
| 6 | We take one day at a time . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 9 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 10 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 16 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 17 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 18 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 19 | IT TAKES 150 days to produce a Brooks saddle . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
| 22 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
| 23 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 24 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 25 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 26 | It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam . |
| 27 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 28 | It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts . |
| 29 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |
| 30 | It took all day to cross the Nullarbor . |