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Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And it takes me over an hour to dry him .
2	These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it .
3	It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like .
4	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 .
5	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 .
6	Takes me about an hour to get it out of her .
7	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 … ’
8	Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker .
9	Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker .
10	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 ?
11	Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it .
12	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 .
13	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
14	Walk along the sea front from Langney to Meads ; it will take you about an hour .
15	‘ It will take us about an hour to get there .
16	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 .
17	It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence .
18	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 .
19	It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’
20	It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’
21	Well , erm , of course it took them quite a while that the people
22	It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes .
23	He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here .
24	The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held .
25	A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough .
26	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 .
27	Aye , took it away no bother .
28	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 .
29	It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes .
30	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 .