Example sentences of "[adv] take [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 2 | It 'll only take me five minutes . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes … |
| 4 | So I mean it 's seventy miles so it should only take us another hour . |
| 5 | It 'll only take you five minutes . ’ |
| 6 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 7 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 8 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 9 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 10 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 11 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're in the WH Smith Top 40 and it has only taken us four years to get there , ’ says Tom White of makers Upstarts . |
| 13 | I 've just took me blooming jacks . |
| 14 | That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour . |
| 15 | Whenever we 're organising fund raising events , it usually takes us several weeks to get everything organised . |
| 16 | ‘ It always takes her some time to get ready She 'll be along later . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We are deliberately taking it one step at a time … |
| 18 | It clearly takes us some way , but there are still major difficulties . |
| 19 | Go to your bank manager and explain your problem , he or she will probably be able to advance you the money to pay these people off straight away and you will then pay the bank the £25 a month , except that because you will pay interest , it will probably take you sixteen months to pay it off instead of fourteen . |
| 20 | ‘ You probably took them this morning while I was sleeping , or maybe right now , before I got back from the jetty . ’ |
| 21 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 22 | So anyway , after fucking weeks and weeks and weeks I had come out to me one day , and Mr came out and he said to me he had a wee bucket and shovels and he says er bring me down to the first floor so I opened to let him out and he gets out and he says to me , now take her half way between the first and second floor and stop her . |
| 23 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 24 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |