Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took eighty five pounds to get change . |
| 2 | When I took these two guitars into the studio to try them out , over the course of the first hour everyone and their cat called in and could n't resist having a go . |
| 3 | Yeah , can you take these two cups to dad please darling ? |
| 4 | I mean if you took that ten percent , it would be two thousand a year from |
| 5 | And how much would she have left if you took thirty five pence away |
| 6 | So I w , I have n't heard what they 've said about holidays , but I would say they ought to say to people , if , if you know , if your allocated six weeks holiday , you take that six weeks holiday . |
| 7 | You take that two pound to go to the . |
| 8 | The schemes now are paid a pension at fifty , but the only , the only snag I understand is it is n't inflation , inflation proofed until fifty-five , but people are drawing their pensions and they get their lump sums at fifty and it 's enhanced to take into account the actual and expected earnings for the next three years , so er you take thirty thousand people , one point seven billion can soon erm |
| 9 | Look , I want you to take these two country towns , Biggleswade and Sandy , the two closest to the geographic centre of the web . |
| 10 | er the coach to er to er Bowness on the bus we took thirty nine pound erm with discount from last year people who er bought some last Christmas we made twenty three pound on that the library , only thirty pence course , we 've had trouble with the library because we ca n't leave it here now and er so that 's why it 's s so low the , the income . |
| 11 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 12 | We take any four boys , and we concentrate on providing them with first-class , intensive training , and my contention is that we can produce a team in every way as competitive as Greycoats ' . ’ |
| 13 | In summer holidays , er , the grant do n't they take that six weeks |
| 14 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 15 | It was n't they took three hundred people the last time and now he 's talking about three hundred . |
| 16 | He complained , so they took those two pockets off us . |
| 17 | They took a prominent part in the repulse of the Austrian attack in this sector in June 1918 , and countered this attack by raids on Austrian positions , in which they took several hundred prisoners . |
| 18 | They take five million pounds out of the scheme as a refund they give themselves a five year contribution holiday and not one penny of that improvement goes to the members . |
| 19 | It takes thirty two hours before they can be packed . |
| 20 | So basically all they 're saying it takes thirty two hours to do one egg . |
| 21 | Star Trek , it takes one million dollars to film just erm to make just one episode of Star Trek . |
| 22 | It takes five thousand nuts to make a ton of copra , which sells at twenty-four pounds a ton ; and that in turn will only produce about a third of a ton of hair shampoo . |
| 23 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 24 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 25 | It takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit is the correct term for going round something , to orbit the earth . |
| 26 | Okay anyway it takes twenty eight days for the moon to orbit the earth . |
| 27 | It takes twenty five minutes . |
| 28 | Erm It takes forty eight man hours . |
| 29 | This job , whatever it is , it takes forty eight man hours . |
| 30 | Oh , it takes forty five minutes to . |