Example sentences of "take [pers pn] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
| 2 | A hundred-odd pounds would n't take me very far . |
| 3 | ‘ Wo n't it take you very much out of your way ? ’ |
| 4 | That did n't take you very long . |
| 5 | Well if you hurry up it wo n't take you very long will it ? |
| 6 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 7 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 8 | Did it take him very long to sell it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Then we 'll take it very slowly ’ . |
| 10 | I felt uneasy about telling the other girls but I knew that ‘ A ’ would take it very differently from them . |
| 11 | I think the humans will take it very seriously . |
| 12 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 13 | I do n't take it very seriously . ’ |
| 14 | We shall now see that in order to account for changes in the modern world this evolutionary background of the ego and superego is by no means irrelevant ; on the contrary , we must take it very seriously if we are to be able to understand what is going on around us . |
| 15 | This is fundamental , and will be of importance later , in connection with Quantum Theory , but does not take us very far forward . |
| 16 | This definition does not take us very far , however . |
| 17 | Such categories , however , do not take us very deeply into the study of style . |
| 18 | Well that does n't take us very much further does it |
| 19 | We have heard various explanations of who these people might be and Lord does take some comfort erm from Amendment number twenty-seven in the Bill , but looking at that Amendment , I 'm afraid My Lords it does n't really take us very far . |
| 20 | You will find some sort of agreement that erm well a nuclear war will take us very much to the worse , there 's no question about it — war nearly always does . |