Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It always takes her some time to get ready She 'll be along later . ’ |
| 2 | I can deliver to you next day , but it takes him ten days to get it here , what service does he need ? |
| 3 | Whenever we 're organising fund raising events , it usually takes us several weeks to get everything organised . |
| 4 | They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip . |
| 5 | ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea . |
| 6 | It will take you one game to get used to the types of clues , using hint as often as you like , but then you have another 65,534 games to play before you have exhausted the possibilities . |
| 7 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 8 | It could take him five seasons to get it right |
| 9 | oh yeah , it 'll take him all day to get ready for it , psyching himself up , mentally prepare himself to get into the kitchen |
| 10 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 11 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 12 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 13 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 14 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 15 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 16 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 17 | Scott 's men were slower than Amundsen 's ; it took them twenty-four days to get to 80° South . |
| 18 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 19 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 20 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 21 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 22 | It took her some time to get used to her face without them . |
| 23 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 24 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 25 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 26 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 27 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 28 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 29 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 30 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |