Example sentences of "taken time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends like to be given something you 've taken time and trouble to make for them . ’ |
| 2 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 3 | Already the mayors at either end of the Bridge , Art Agnos ( Giants ) and Lionel Wilson ( Athletics ) , have taken time out from civic duties to place ritual side bets with each other on the outcome . |
| 4 | The captain and stand-off has taken time out to recover fully from a pre-season hand injury , and Bath will be grateful of his guidance . |
| 5 | At least the enemy had taken time to bury the soldiers , but what a way to go ; dead and buried in a ditch hundreds of miles from home . |
| 6 | If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about . |
| 7 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 8 | Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman recorded for Shrapnel Records from 1981 to 1989 and has recently taken time out from working with the band to record a new solo album , ‘ Scenes ’ , for Shrapnel/Roadrunner Records . |
| 9 | Amis has taken time to rehearse the arguments about politics hijacking literature , and in the end the novel may even surprise some readers with its air of amused tolerince : ‘ Even bad poetry had to exist , if only to heighten good poetry by contrast , to make the good poets shine out as even bette . ’ |
| 10 | KEITH Richards has taken time off from the Rolling Stones to perform with his own band , the X-Pensive Winos . |
| 11 | Royle added : ‘ Olney has taken time to settle in but he is full of running and he is now doing okay . |
| 12 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 13 | Over the years he had worked hard into the night , had attended every lecture and tutorial , had scarcely taken time to attend student functions such as debates , except that these gave him fresh ideas ; he never spoke at them . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you taken time to sharpen your axe , boy ? ’ enquired the boss . |
| 15 | In the first extract ( I ) , the rich lexis and well-organised structure are indications that the writer has taken time in the construction , and possibly reconstruction after several rewritings , of the final product . |
| 16 | It had taken time but her written French as well as her spoken was now first class . |
| 17 | Normally I would have taken time to think , and said something polite , but somehow I answered at once , ‘ No , sir . ’ |
| 18 | Philippe Barbe , whose slender Martin Francis-designed 77-footer ( 23.4m ) Speedy-Go was the largest in the fleet , had taken time out of the Route de Rosé race from St Tropez to St Barts to participate . |
| 19 | They were all there except Christine , even Barry Morse who must have taken time off from his job , presumably to lend support to his wife and the family . |
| 20 | Gary had taken time off from Edinburgh Playhouse where he was starring in the musical , Me and My Girl . |
| 21 | The flowers had probably been ordered soon after the Rose Bowl opened , and that morning she had taken time off to buy the dress that was now causing her indecision . |
| 22 | IT HAS taken time for people around Europe to grasp the full meaning of what has been done , and continues to be done , in their name by their political leaders . |
| 23 | Had n't she already taken time off work which she could ill afford in her sister 's interests ? |
| 24 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 25 | The graveyard wall itself has just been spray-painted — the colour is barely dry on a five-foot-high blue swastika , and the artists have not taken time to dot the i's on the words DEAD YIDS INSIDE . |
| 26 | First , because farmers have paid a lot of attention to improving the quality of their output and doing it as efficiently as possible , but have not taken time to tell the consumer and the general public about the efforts that have been made . |
| 27 | Management as local activity has taken time to distance itself from the field of administration which belonged , as recently as the 1980s , to varying tiers of government rather than to institutions . |
| 28 | Little damage had been done , all it needed was for the cargo to be reassembled , but , while several tourists were rushing energetically around attempting to do this , the drivers of the carts had taken time off to chat . |
| 29 | Fabia awakened in her hotel room in Bamberg and thought that , had Cara been with her , since their destination was not so very far away now , they would have taken time out to have a look round . |
| 30 | One of TV 's most famous newsreaders has taken time off from her job in front of the cameras to do some stage work . |