Example sentences of "[adv] took [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |
| 2 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 3 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 4 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 5 | A human family would never return to such a scene of grisly death , but the owls just took it all calmly . |
| 6 | Yet Neil Kinnock nearly took them all the way . |
| 7 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 8 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 9 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |