Example sentences of "[pers pn] take some [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took some work to show him and he was very generous about it . ’ |
| 2 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 3 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 4 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 5 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 6 | They take some time to load programs and try the patience of young pupils . |
| 7 | However , it takes some skill to identify them . |
| 8 | It takes some imagination to share the contradictions , the unrealised hopes , the might-have-beens , of the past . |
| 9 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 10 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 11 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 12 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 13 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 14 | All the aermacchis are destroyed , so he takes some marines to make a reconnaissance across the island , his objective Goose Green . |
| 15 | Cec was a clever , goalscoring inside or centre-forward although , as his career records show , he took some time to come to terms with the standard required in Division Two of the Football League . |
| 16 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 17 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 18 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 19 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 20 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 21 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 22 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 23 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 24 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 25 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 26 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 27 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 28 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 29 | It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners . |
| 30 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |