Example sentences of "to take [pron] all " in BNC.
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1 | There are so many sick in the village , February is a wicked month , and it seems to take me all my time to get round the cottages and then when I am back , I am extremely tired and I fear I 'm not as patient as I should be , poor little creatures and the baby still in his petticoats . |
2 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
3 | Although throughout Marx 's and Engels 's work reference to property is so extensive that it is impossible to take them all into account , a general pattern emerges . |
4 | Cos we had to go you see , and you had to put your Sunday clothes on , your best coat and everything ; and then when you came back you had to take them all off again . ’ |
5 | You 'd have to take them all in to be examined , then see if there was any fraying around the trousers and you had n't reported it , for ordinary wear and tear had to be reported and then taken in for repair — you could n't repair it yourself . |
6 | Those two were going to give her the creeps if she really had to take them all the way to Titan . |
7 | My feeling was one of horror , mingled with a desire to take them all . ’ |
8 | And that for you to take them all |
9 | Sometimes er do I have to take them all the time ? |
10 | so it , so I 'm tempted , not to hand , you know , to take them all off before handing them out |
11 | Charities , okay that 's , that 's a good contribution , I do n't want to take them all from you , I want others as well . |
12 | putting folk there and come back , and putting them and coming back and he then he did , that was four loads he would have had you see and then had to take them all back home again . |
13 | not having to take them all , I mean having to take them to court . |
14 | Anyway , arrived at the station and there was this great coach standing there waiting to take them all to . |
15 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
16 | ‘ He must be special to take you all that way . ’ |
17 | A dozen sexy song titles to take you all the way : |
18 | Though the coaches are scheduled to take you all the way to and from your accommodation , on occasion it may be necessary for Cosmos to employ a local coach for part of the way to and from your hotel in order to comply with strict Driver 's Hours regulations imposed to ensure your safety . |
19 | ‘ Actually , I 've come to take you all back home . ’ |
20 | Yet the unique CompuAdd design means there 's still room for five expansion slots — even with its built-in VGA 1024 card , ready to take you all the way to Hi-Rez screen displays . |
21 | He let the torch travel down over her back , to take her all in , and was surprised to something peculiar under her tail . |
22 | But it was felt anomalous to take it all the way down to fourth XV , even under-18 , level , ’ said Hogg . |
23 | It is hard to take it all seriously When practising during daylight , but as our friends in Wales found , controlling a mobile body of men at night , without getting lost and remaining undetected , is not easy . |
24 | So I ‘ open it an inch ’ and thus I delay further , giving them time to take it all in and to adjust to the exposure to what they must ultimately cope with : the witch addressing them directly . |
25 | ‘ She loved it , Eddie , you know I think it was almost too much for her , she could n't seem to take it all in , so many things , a bag and shoes , and socks , on top of everything . |
26 | If they want to take it all away in the end and match me up with that slimy halfwit , why then take me up to the mountain and show me the world ? |
27 | ‘ I do find it hard to take it all seriously , ’ he says . |
28 | I do n't suppose I 'll be able to take it all in for a while . |
29 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
30 | Life was marching up such a strange road that it was sometimes hard to take it all in . |