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 .
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