Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hari said quietly , ‘ There 's things I need to know before I take any more risks for you . ’ |
| 2 | Let me take some more examples . |
| 3 | They took two more curtains and then he bawled : ‘ Houselights ! |
| 4 | Like you say , it takes much more time to get into it . |
| 5 | Then from the back of the file he took six more sheets of paper , perused them hurriedly and then signed those too . |
| 6 | A shame not to be able to hear , but he knew if he took one more step towards them the scene would break up and he would lose them . |
| 7 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 8 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 9 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 10 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 11 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 12 | But let us take one more look before we return to modernity . |
| 13 | Let us take one more example from his " Diffugere nives " : the rendering , at the end of the poem , of as " take away " , making a rhyme with the filler phrase ( mentioned above ) " he must stay " . |