Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] takes [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involves a different type of responsibility as well , and to accept it takes real courage . |
| 2 | check it out for them and they want a quote , say it takes two blokes an hour each |
| 3 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 4 | Atari says it takes legal action against as many pirates as it can find , and has two big prosecutions pending at the moment . |
| 5 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 6 | And I 'll just , just discuss briefly two of the cases that he uses and they 're , you know , they 're , they 're old now , I have n't read the most recent edition of his book , he might have updated his case studies but it does n't really matter he takes two cases er one relating to erm the conduct of the Korean war in the nineteen fifties , and the other relating to the desegregation of southern schools , also in the nineteen fifties , as examples of presidential power . |
| 7 | And I mean they say with skin grafts it takes two years before they 're completely settled and accepted . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’ |
| 9 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 10 | I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across . |
| 11 | Mark 's acceptance at Oxford proves it takes different strokes , different brush strokes that is , to move the world . |
| 12 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 13 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |