Example sentences of "'s take " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course , it 's taken me years to get where I am . |
| 2 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 3 | We made the mistake of not putting in the trees before the hedges and it 's taken them seven or eight years to get going because it 's so exposed . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Someone 's taken it . ’ |
| 6 | But your father 's taken it dreadfully . |
| 7 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's taken us five years to get this far and by now we know when we 've had enough of each other and when to get out of the van and go and sit somewhere quiet to cool off , ’ says Craig . |
| 10 | I 've eventually got there — but it 's taken me all these years , ’ she says . |
| 11 | The woman thinks we were buying them , but she 's taken them back and it 's all sorted out . ’ |
| 12 | He 's taken them from the old Fourth to the top three in the First Division . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's taken me to lots of places . |
| 14 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's taken me so long to get ‘ Gunnell ’ up there on the giant Olympic scoreboard , I think I 'm going to carry on being called that for athletics purposes . ’ |
| 16 | It 's taken me about a year to realize that the things I put down do n't actually disappear of their own accord . |
| 17 | So since his old fella died and he could n't take it out on him , he 's taken it out on his young missis and the young ‘ uns . ’ |
| 18 | If you apply to the fund at the beginning of the month you 'll likely to get something , but hard luck if you apply later on in the month , but that she 's taken up as an open letter to Jerry Hayes , but so far I have n't seen it in the press . |
| 19 | She 's taken someone 's . |
| 20 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 21 | Very good they are too : it 's taken me a whole month to stop laughing ! |
| 22 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 23 | HE 'S ALSO THE DIRECTOR OF ‘ BOYS ‘ N THE HOOD ’ , THE TALE OF BLACK GANGLAND VIOLENCE IN LA THAT 'S TAKEN AMERICA BY STORM . |
| 24 | You see how beautifully evenly it 's taken up that ink . |
| 25 | I see the form tutor one as being now we 've got hold of record of achievement as being part of the developmental process of a record of achievement , now our youngsters know what a personal statement is , form tutors are happier with a joint statement it 's taken us four years |
| 26 | It 's taken me long enough god knows but |
| 27 | no , no , but once he 's taken it and then he 's come round and erm he realizes what it 's , what he 's done , yeah . |
| 28 | Right , because the body is acting in order to protect its vital organs and it 's drawing the blood vessels near the skin , shut down , you 're not needed there , you 're needed here , in the core of the body , because your blood is what warms your skin up , it 's taken away from the skin , then the skin feels cold and clammy , yeah , clammy because of course if there 's no heat , we sweat all the time and especially if somebody 's had an accident or is seriously ill they will be sweating , yes , then there 's nothing to dry the sweat off okay , what happens when we sweat excessively in the summer time ? |
| 29 | The organism is in i is inspired into the alveolar spaces and it 's taken up by alveolar , the standard er abbreviation for macrophage and , the organism i in contrast to many others which we 've sort of er die fairly rapidly after being taken up by these phagocytic cells , says Goodee ! |
| 30 | ‘ Albert and the others are out , he 's taken them to le Lavandou for the day . ’ |