Example sentences of "[vb past] take so [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr M was very impressed by the Children 's Panel system that , he said , seemed to take so much time and trouble to listen to , and about , the children . |
| 2 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 3 | The bacteria fed initially on the various carbon compounds that had taken so many millions of years to accumulate in the primordial seas . |
| 4 | Although the campaign against apprenticeship brought a renewal of petitioning , by 1838 the Scots abolitionist William Smeal was expressing his disappointment at how ‘ cavalierly ’ petitions which had taken so much effort were received by the Commons . |
| 5 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |