Example sentences of "[pron] take me [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 2 | ‘ I take me blasted dog along there every day that passes and all summer there 's a bunch of them at dawn , wearing sheets and what not . |
| 3 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 4 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 5 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 6 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 7 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 8 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 9 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 10 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 11 | It took me all day . |
| 12 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 13 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 14 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 15 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 16 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 17 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 18 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 19 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 20 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 21 | it took me five times |
| 22 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 23 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 24 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 26 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 27 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 28 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 29 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 30 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |