Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] take some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I also take some comfort from the fact that I have enormous pleasure in remembering all those who I dealt with in this capacity returned to the Pathfinder Force before the end and wished sincerely to finish their Pathfinder tour .
2 I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been .
3 Until an alleged audit failure has been properly investigated , which usually takes some years , the Institute knows no better than anybody else whether there really has been any negligence or wrongdoing .
4 Which often takes some time .
5 It is now a minority who enter full-time employment and there has been considerable increase in the numbers who now take some form of further education .
6 ‘ Could we not take some part in your work ? ’
7 Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ?
8 After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India .
9 That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation .
10 It always took some while for the Thing to wake up .
11 It always took some time after her departure to get back into the old routine again … into the old pleasant routine .
12 But because inflation differentials were relatively small during the 1950s and 1960s , it often took some time for marked divergences in competitiveness to emerge .
13 It then took some time to raise the heavy engine and cut the rope from the propeller , but I finally managed it before drifting ashore .
14 He then took some food which would last for a while and packed it into his bag .
15 It actually takes some time before I get to the stage of asking for his name , the date or details of the place where he lives .
16 For styling and interior comfort , both for pilots and passengers , it certainly takes some beating .
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