Example sentences of "to take [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 2 | ‘ If Carnelian leaves Stalinvast , ’ Jaq said bluntly , ‘ we may need to take you a vast distance . ’ |
| 3 | then maybe that 's going to take you a bit longer . |
| 4 | If you do n't know them it 's going to take you a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's going to take you a very long time , ’ said Julius in an unruffled voice . |
| 6 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 7 | It was n't working out like he 'd thought and it was going to take him a lot longer than he 'd planned . |
| 8 | In the morning , she 'd ask Marie-Christine to take him a note , saying that she 'd had to make other plans . |
| 9 | And Miss Lilian will be here to take her a nice little something on a tray if she wakes before we 're back . |
| 10 | Mobile minister the Rev Bill Harper , who is to conduct a special service for Maude , is to take her a letter from the Queen Mother and a signed photograph from Dr George Carey . |
| 11 | I have to take it a little at a time , it is so powerful . |
| 12 | I want to take it a step further and say , do n't behave like that , you idiots — it 's destroying people 's lives . ’ |
| 13 | To take it a stage further , if the child 's welfare is threatened by a serious and imminent risk that the child will suffer grave and irreversible mental or physical harm , then once again the court when called upon has a duty to intervene . |
| 14 | The elderly relatives did what they could but it meant that all through his life — not that he even survived to forty — there was never a chance to take it a bit easier , no one he could rely on to do the work if he was ill or tired . |
| 15 | Mr Morris welcomed the principle of the Farm Assured Scotch Livestock initiative but added : ‘ The scheme guarantees consumers that stock have been produced according to welfare friendly standards but we would welcome steps to take it a stage further , particularly to embrace quality . |
| 16 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 17 | Now I think that 's better than nothing , but I think one has to take it a stage further than that and say that erm the concepts and the processes in science do build logically one upon the other , in a coherent and meaningful way , and that 's important for teachers to appreciate what that meaningful sequence is and that , you know , the lucky dip idea is , as I have said , better than nothing , but it 's so much inferior to the notion that teachers should be aware that there is a progression in science and that they can teach children progressively from a very early age onwards and build meaningful knowledge upon meaningful knowledge . |
| 18 | I think , obviously you 've you 've got your own organization , your own professional standards and things , I think they need to be developed and , more importantly , promoted themselves to the public , and then , to take it a bit further and to try and escape that straitjacket which I think which in this country particularly all public servants are limited by . |
| 19 | The final studies to be reviewed in this chapter help , we believe , to take us a little nearer understanding that paradox , as well as offering more convincing evidence than that considered so far that the connection between creativity and psychosis is indeed genuine . |
| 20 | Well we could get the bus to take us a long route . |
| 21 | I 'll ask Michael Colgan now to take us a bit further down a look at the costs . |
| 22 | That is going to take us a bit of time to put into place , but we 're , you know we 're moving just about as fast as our legs can carry us . |