Example sentences of "takes [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wake up , I know summat 's up when I open my eyes and see it 's all bright , but it takes me a minute to remember where I am . |
| 2 | It takes me a little time to get calm again . |
| 3 | It takes me a bit to remember where I am . |
| 4 | Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye . |
| 5 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 6 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 7 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 8 | THE next leg of my journey takes me the short drive to Regensburg and from there I follow a minor road to Cham , last stop before the German-Czech border post . |
| 9 | Er , it takes me an hour to get there , if I 'm lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day , is like an hour to patch , then you 're out on to the patch , in between appointments running about because Derby 's quite a big area , er , again if you 've got to cover an appointment in Matlock and you 're in Derby in the morning you 're talking a good forty five minute run to get there . |
| 10 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
| 11 | I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers |
| 12 | ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’ |
| 13 | If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established . |
| 14 | This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them . |
| 15 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 16 | If it normally takes you a quarter of an hour to shave , make it take you half an hour . |
| 17 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 18 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 19 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 20 | And if it takes you a matter of seconds , you really need to address your security . |
| 21 | The carpet gets turned round , your favourite chair feels all wrong , and yet it only takes you an hour or two to wonder why it was obviously never done like this before . |
| 22 | So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on . |
| 23 | If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer . |
| 24 | It takes him a moment to regain his composure . |
| 25 | It takes him a minute to realize what it is . |
| 26 | I mean they had twenty two thousand people round this year , it 's takes him a week to recover , the poor man . |
| 27 | Banners on Parade ( BoP ) takes it a stage further and does it in Windows , adding graphics for visual effect . |
| 28 | The poem enacts various creations as parts of an apparently continuing ritual pattern ; it is polyphiloprogenitive in detailing the creation of the Word , Origen , the painting , and flowers ; we seem able to trace all back to their cause , yet ultimately the cause is only a formal utterance , ‘ In the beginning was the Word ’ , whose repetition takes us no further . |
| 29 | In this talk I want us to consider an image which I believe takes us a little closer to the meaning of the cross — the image of reconciliation and representation . |
| 30 | She said : ‘ It takes us a year to save up and we try to put away £25 each every month . |