Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me all the strength I have left to open the door into Contracts . |
| 2 | It takes me half an hour to get from my home in North London to Heathrow Airport via the M25 . |
| 3 | It takes me half an hour to kick you out of bed . |
| 4 | More Sunday afternoon than Saturday night , this takes you all the way to Soho and leaves you there . |
| 5 | And it takes you all the way there ? |
| 6 | Now the braking , bearing in mind It takes you half a second to react anyway , but hi his actual thinking distance is about thirty feet . |
| 7 | It takes you half an hour to get your card out |
| 8 | It is a three-day journey to the land of Moriah , yet he cuts the wood for Isaac 's funeral pyre before he sets off , and takes it all the way with him . |
| 9 | The craft , experience and hunger of Montana and Allen can take them all the way this time . |
| 10 | The craft , experience and hunger of Montana and Allen can take them all the way this time . |
| 11 | The driver could take me all the way to Inverness if I wanted . |
| 12 | She 's an ancient lass , I call her Nellie , but she can take me all the way to Sanderstown if I want a night out with bright lights . |
| 13 | If I 'm in bed , it might take me half a minute to wake up . |
| 14 | Oh it 's gon na take me half an hour to decide what I want now , I 'm in that kind of mood ! |
| 15 | So anyway we had us dinner so he says he said it 'll take thee half an hour to get ready wo n't it ? |
| 16 | They will take you half a mile for a packet of Marlboros — for a carton , they 'll fight each other for the privilege of taking you all the way ( eighteen miles ) out to Sheremtyevo airport . |
| 17 | If it normally takes you a quarter of an hour to shave , make it take you half an hour . |
| 18 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 19 | ‘ He is in for one hell of a battle and we will take him all the way to court if we have to . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll take it all the way to the Senate if I have to . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Will she take it all the way or wo n't she ? ’ became the talk of the senior common room . |
| 22 | Even translation from morse into natural language does not take us all the way to consciousness ; for , in the absence of consciousness , language is merely variegated sound , rather than the rich varieties of meaning that are embodied in , for example , Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 23 | ‘ They can take us all the way across this place . |
| 24 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 25 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 26 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 27 | It only took me half a day to decide that I wanted the job . |
| 28 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 29 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 30 | But it only took me half an hour to get to Blefuscu . |