Example sentences of "take i about [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , it only takes me about forty minute , no hold on ! |
| 2 | get all these programmes for some reason , somebody allowed for it when they put the system in , mind you still have to check it I suppose but checked through it , tested it , took me about five minutes , still a minimum charge of an hour |
| 3 | And of Thompson , he added : ‘ It took me about two years to buy Thompson from Slough . |
| 4 | It took me about two weeks to catch up with the loss . |
| 5 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 6 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 7 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 8 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 9 | Sadly , it only took me about ten seconds to think of this merry lot so I 've probably missed lots of good candidates … |
| 10 | It took me about three hours to get six stops . |
| 11 | It took me about three hours to do my homework so I was very tired after everything . |
| 12 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 13 | It took me about three seconds to realize that no human agency would ever get the ball out that way and without thinking I withdrew my hands , braced both thumbs behind the angle of the lower jaw and pushed . |
| 14 | So of course I , took me about half hour to find the forklift cos somebody had nicked it by time I went got the chemicals Robin comes down , he said oh do n't worry about he said do i do it tomorrow morning he said , they 'll be nobody about then can you go down the bot bottom and do the butterflies ? |
| 15 | It would 've taken me about four hours to do it . |