Example sentences of "and it take [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | If you are in the river and pee in the water , it can sense your urine and will swim up to lodge in you , swimming up the nearest orifice and sticking out its barbs , which is meant to be excruciatingly painful — and it takes surgery to get one out . |
2 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
3 | And it takes ages to call |
4 | The most common type used by gardeners is drawn through the earth by rotors that dig the soil and it takes practice to get the knack of using it . |
5 | It 's like two distinct things , two different worlds , and it takes time to make the transition between them in one sitting . ’ |
6 | In order to have a current , charge carriers must be accelerated , and it takes time to accelerate particles of finite mass . |
7 | She 's very young , only a girl really , and it takes time to get used to this funny little country . |
8 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
9 | He does not know what to do , and it takes time to solve the problem . |
10 | And it takes nerve to walk and sit to order in the glare of the lights with all those people watching . |
11 | Bereavement is the one battle in which people dice with a death that has already occurred in order to survive all the dangers of the loss and deprivation it brings , and it takes courage to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone who is in the thick of it . |
12 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
13 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |