Example sentences of "[coord] it take [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 2 | This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them . |
| 3 | Now , amongst varied voluntary work she enthusiastically organises and participates in orienteering , ‘ It is a good family sport and it takes one to interesting and beautiful places in this country and abroad ’ . |
| 4 | It 's long and shiny and it takes me ages to do it . |
| 5 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 6 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 7 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 8 | I 've got to go back and it takes me sometimes twice , sometimes three times when you get all this rubbish that he has to take round . |
| 9 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |
| 10 | Harbour commissioner Frank Sluman said : ‘ The sea is a cruel master and it takes its toll over the years . ’ |
| 11 | The soft crust thinks the rotten so-called adult world shops at Next , and it takes itself too seriously ( like any sullen delinquent ) to explore the groovy games of style , experiment and enterprise played by the ‘ kids ’ . |
| 12 | As the nondrinker I get first go ( why ? ) and it takes my breath away . |
| 13 | And when the winds change , the sea moves and it takes my boat away . ’ |
| 14 | There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port . |
| 15 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 16 | And it takes it must take a lot longer to produce a plane like the Tornado and a Spitfire or a Lancaster in erm the days of erm nineteen forty three |
| 17 | So if you select all the text again , shift F ten , and press the alt space bar , then all of that formatting is removed and it takes you back to your text as it was . |
| 18 | And if you get fed up of moving text one tab stop at a time if you go alt P you then actually remove all of the paragraph formatting that you add and it takes you back to your starting position . |
| 19 | and it takes you back right what else did I take I took nine things |
| 20 | Just turn right up there and it takes you up to the bottom of the M10 . |
| 21 | And it takes you all the way there ? |
| 22 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 23 | er it 's an event held in The Gallery and er we have got er ski experts coming er , equipment people ; we have got the latest ski simulator coming down from Dorset , which enables people to actually get inside and it takes you down the Val de Zere er no , yes , takes you down the Val de Zere downhill and it really is quite impressive . |
| 24 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 25 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 26 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 27 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 28 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 29 | Lamb was on 99 and it took him an age next morning to reach the hundred , his first since 1984 . |
| 30 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |