Example sentences of "[coord] it take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
| 2 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 3 | And it takes ages to call |
| 4 | mhm And they have to buy everything for you , and it takes ages does n't it . |
| 5 | He says Fill her up … and it takes petrol … diesel engines had n't quite been perfected . |
| 6 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 7 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
| 8 | In all aspects of pay and promotion the personal evaluation is critical and it takes account not just of performance at the current job but desirable personality traits such as creativity , emotional maturity and ability to cooperate with others . |
| 9 | But when you get to know them all , and it takes years and years , they 're marvellous company . |
| 10 | He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem . |
| 11 | She 's very young , only a girl really , and it takes time to get used to this funny little country . |
| 12 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
| 13 | Quite often all the things that parents want to say go out of their heads and it takes time and confidence in their listener to start to explore the greater areas of concern . |
| 14 | In order to have a current , charge carriers must be accelerated , and it takes time to accelerate particles of finite mass . |
| 15 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 16 | And it takes nerve to walk and sit to order in the glare of the lights with all those people watching . |
| 17 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
| 18 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 19 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 20 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 21 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |
| 22 | An optimistic beginning , with an early goal thrown in , gave way to uncertainty and it took McCoist 's second goal to inspire Scotland to the stirring finale which brought a third from Pat Nevin five minutes from the end . |
| 23 | The economic realities meant that Prussia 's weight was thus far greater than the constitutional arrangements suggested : the Zollverein was administered by a sort of Council of Ministers which met annually in one of the capitals , and it took decisions by unanimity . |
| 24 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 25 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |
| 26 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 27 | Jill returned , saying that it was Mrs Mellings , for her father , and it took Alice some moments to realise that this must be her mother , not the new Mrs Mellings , who at this moment would be already on her way to the pleasures of a weekend in Kent . |
| 28 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 29 | The Vimy was a heavy machine to handle and it took Jack all his strength to hold her steady . |
| 30 | The need for a male heir to the throne of France was now desperate and it took Louis only five weeks to find a third wife , Adela of Champagne . |