Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [num] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took two paperback books , a toothbrush , my Ventolin inhaler and a copy of the repeat prescription , four T-shirts , two pairs of jeans and my other pair of trainers . |
| 2 | She took six weeks leave after Hannah 's birth and two weeks after Jessica 's . |
| 3 | After leaving school at 16 , she took three part time jobs to earn money . |
| 4 | However , being unwilling to contradict her parents ' wishes she took three science A-levels rather than the arts subjects she preferred . |
| 5 | You take two rounds Willie . |
| 6 | We took three Hairflair readers along to the Schwarzkopf London Academy to try these new professional products — the results were stunning ! |
| 7 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 8 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 9 | It takes four AA batteries . |
| 10 | It takes two AA size alkaline batteries . |
| 11 | It takes two AA size batteries . |
| 12 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 13 | He took three twenty-pound notes out of his wallet . |
| 14 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 15 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 16 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 17 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 18 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 19 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |