Example sentences of "takes so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole process takes so long . |
| 2 | But it takes so much time and you 're leaving tomorrow . |
| 3 | It would not be statute law in the first instance , since it takes so long to get proposed statutes passed into law . |
| 4 | Because it takes so long for blood alcohol levels to fall , it 's easy for someone who drinks ‘ modestly ’ at lunch time and after work to go over the limit , even though he may take only four units on each occasion . |
| 5 | We can not just do nothing , when it takes so little of our time to make our voice heard . |
| 6 | It takes so much time , and conditions can be terrible , but it 's worth it to see the passengers . |
| 7 | Mrs Jones felt that the slow progress of the assessment and the limited information she received created new problems instead of resolving existing ones : ‘ It introduces so much trauma — you 're getting all the criticism all the time but you 're not getting any information because it takes so long . ’ |
| 8 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 9 | Erm , er , now of course to get back to the ambulance erm if somebody comes out of an epileptic fit and goes immediately back into another one , then you must call an ambulance , it takes so much from the person , it takes so much energy that the person ca n't possible go into one fit after another , erm without showing some affects and therefore you would have to get them to hospital , if you do n't and they have two or three fits one after another they can die , so they must go to hospital . |
| 10 | It takes so many man hours . |
| 11 | It takes so much more effort to entertain a loving relationship when one is older . |
| 12 | It takes so long for another type to convince the B t 's that it is z = 0 , that any long run benefit from this is outweighed by the cost , of acquiring such a reputation . |
| 13 | It is not worthwhile to permanently masquerade as the dominant strategy type , because it takes so long to acquire such a reputation . |
| 14 | It takes so long to get off ! |
| 15 | Coleridge 's treatment of the topic is so varied , and takes so many forms , that to merely cite ‘ Creativity ’ as the subject matter of the poetry is to limit the range of Coleridge 's exploration . |
| 16 | It takes so much of your time , 15–20 hours a week from February to October and sometimes a lot more , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ To do anything in Sarajevo takes so much time . |
| 18 | It takes so long . |
| 19 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 20 | It 's the preparation that takes so long in Chinese cooking . |
| 21 | It takes honestly it takes so much willpower to grow your hair it really does . |
| 22 | I know it takes so long . |
| 23 | Whereabouts have they gone ? takes so long to get there so I mean . |
| 24 | It takes so , it takes so long to do everything you see . |
| 25 | It takes so , it takes so long to do everything you see . |
| 26 | And er , I should n't really have started this over because Lawrence takes so long to go through it , erm , find Johnson waiting , think it right . |
| 27 | Could be any time now , we 're just waiting tha Mr explained to him this morning , you know , why it , it ta takes so long |
| 28 | Erm , or they stop , the current speaker stops thinking that somebody might want to join in , or the erm , spea current speaker chooses the next one , but the person they choose takes so long to actually respond , the current speaker carries on , because he thinks they 're not going to say anything . |
| 29 | or the speaker who 's speaking , selects the next speaker by saying , did n't you think , or whatever , but the person they 've chosen takes so long to answer , that the current speaker just carries on |
| 30 | It 's a bit erm , takes so much alcohol is n't it , really . |