Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] take some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that the facilities provided by the Careers Service have never had greater significance and I take some consolation in knowing that the current team is well structured and dedicated to providing the best possible service in finding careers and fulfilment for graduates from the University ’ . |
| 2 | There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 7 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 8 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 9 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 10 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 11 | She would have no trouble catching him on paper , but she took some photographs just to make sure . |
| 12 | But she took some coffee and began to drink . |
| 13 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 14 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 15 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 16 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 20 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 21 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |