Example sentences of "[verb] take [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 2 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
| 3 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 4 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 5 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 6 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 7 | And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before . |
| 8 | It seemed to take him an age to remember . |
| 9 | Ruth knew there was something strange about him , but it seemed to take her an age to work out what it was : he was wearing a green cloak , and its folds drifted round him as if floating in water . |
| 10 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 11 | It was n't working out like he 'd thought and it was going to take him a lot longer than he 'd planned . |
| 12 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |
| 13 | then maybe that 's going to take you a bit longer . |
| 14 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
| 15 | I should have taken you a walk tonight . |
| 16 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 17 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
| 18 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 19 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 20 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 21 | I have taken it a stage further with the inclusion of many groups usually seen as problematic , linking them with more familiar body plans . |
| 22 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
| 23 | He 's taken it a step further too … producing a microchip that carries the individual voice pattern . |