Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 2 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 3 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 4 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 5 | Takes me about an hour to get it out of her . |
| 6 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 7 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 8 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 9 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 10 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 11 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 12 | Like , you know , I saw like , what really , I 'd sat there , I mean like you say , I and I admit that I odds and ends that 'll probably take me about an hour in total |
| 13 | Walk along the sea front from Langney to Meads ; it will take you about an hour . |
| 14 | ‘ It will take us about an hour to get there . |
| 15 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 16 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 17 | To tell the truth , it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was , in fact , human speech . |
| 18 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 19 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 20 | Well , erm , of course it took them quite a while that the people |
| 21 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 22 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 23 | The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held . |
| 24 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 25 | Naturally , Reynard started there , drew the first blank , which did n't disconcert him ( he would have been disappointed by an easy discovery anyway ) and composed himself to delve deeper , perhaps taking it backwards a month at a time , beginning with Malamute 's employment with Club Eleusis . |
| 26 | The opening Largo of the Concerto No. 1 in D major is a good example of these qualities in Corelli 's style yet I felt that Banchini took it just a shade too slow for its own good . |
| 27 | It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes . |
| 28 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 29 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 30 | I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home ! |