Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other , on the face of it , gives less cause for revelling , since it takes us back a mere 70 years and is effectively an anniversary of an anniversary . |
| 2 | Did it take you quite a long time to get to sleep ? |
| 3 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |
| 4 | It took me quite a long time . |
| 5 | Chairman , if they are recorded all later , it took me quite a long time to discover them , could we have , abbreviations just written out , it makes it very difficult for me to , I 'm not used , I mean , I 'm |
| 6 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 7 | The fellow grinned and took them along a dark , smelly passageway into another chamber where the keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert , was squatting behind a great oak table like a king enthroned in his palace . |
| 8 | I wish I 'd have took them out a long while ago when they were higher . |
| 9 | It took her quite a long time to understand what had occurred and what she had done wrong . |
| 10 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 11 | One of these walks used to take them down a narrow side-street in a busy part of London . |
| 12 | Many commonly-prescribed drugs increase the sensitivity of the skin and eyes to ultra-violet light — particularly if you take them over a long period of time . |
| 13 | To take you back a wee bit before that er when you were an apprentice was your tuition from your journeymen quite good ? |