Example sentences of "can take [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 2 | Housebound and often in severe pain , Mr McTear says that it can take him 30 minutes to recover his breath from the simple act of walking downstairs in the morning . |
| 3 | Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways |
| 4 | I think we can take it one step further on er with a growth margin basis . |
| 5 | You can take it two ways , it 'll probably get up and bite you . |
| 6 | Does this mean that , whenever we encounter a deviance that can be cured either by adjustment of grammar or lexical content , we can take it that semantics is involved ? |
| 7 | The director said : " You can take it any way you like . " |