Example sentences of "[pers pn] takes [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her art is most successful when she takes on archetypal roles and makes her audience aware , simultaneously , of how immediately recognizable , widely shared and transparently obvious these roles are .
2 She takes away some photocopies of his published articles — on green issues , gender , hunt sabotage and Jewish ethics — and promises to keep in touch .
3 She takes really bad liberties with people and oth and other peoples things and stuff .
4 Cos she takes about two pounds of root ginger peels it
5 It takes either great pretentiousness or great brilliance ( or an outrageous combination of the two ) for a young poet to proclaim himself as Orpheus in the first poem of his first book .
6 It takes either three men working at ten hours .
7 There can be no doubt that it takes gruellingly hard work to reach the top echelon in aerobatics , and each member of the British Aerobatic Team '92 has more than adequately demonstrated their worth .
8 It takes just five minutes for the interviewer to ask , ‘ So where did you get the name from ? ’
9 It takes just five seconds for him to realize that there are only so many hours in the working day to establish the key priorities and apply his mind to them .
10 It takes just five seconds for him to eliminate the stress .
11 It takes just two minutes for a burglar to turn a home into a nightmare — in the city of Gloucester police are being called up to twelve times a day by families finding scenes like these .
12 A popular choice is the corner bath , because although it takes up more floor area than a rectangular bath and runs along two walls , it actually requires less wall length ( typically 1300 or 1400mm ) , allowing more flexibility when planning a moderately sized , squarish bathroom .
13 ( This means that it takes up more hospital space than any other single illness . )
14 And as it takes up little room , tie is also a good idea , ‘ just in case ’ .
15 When they 're placed on floppies we can use a program ( called a ‘ packer ’ or ‘ zipper ’ ) to encode this information so it takes up less space .
16 It takes approximately four years in the British climate for a fish to attain that length ( and equivalent weight of about 1lb 4oz ) .
17 Bearing in mind that it takes approximately 12 weeks from planting to flowering , it is possible to grow bulbs of many species and varieties to flower at the same time for a spectacular display , and also plant for a succession of flowers if potting up is carefully timed .
18 As a guideline it takes approximately 40 minutes for four people to play 1 game .
19 Situated in Hind Cove , it takes over two hours to reach from Wasdale .
20 The North Ayrshire and Arran NHS Trust has told 51 of the 719-strong workforce at three Ayrshire hospitals , which it takes over next week , that their fixed , short-term contracts will not be renewed on 31 March .
21 The neighbouring RAF bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in Suffolk , to be vacated by the U.S. Air Force next year , will not be required by the Ministry of Defence when it takes over full control of the sites .
22 It takes around 45 minutes to make a blood donation and staff at AEA are invited to donate twice a year .
23 It takes only one missile to get through , and lives may be lost , not to mention the ship .
24 It takes only one leak to sink a ship , one gate to let in a Trojan horse .
25 It takes only 10 minutes to get to the shops in the wheelchair .
26 However , according to ICL , it takes only 10 seconds to reactivate the system .
27 HP reckons it takes only 30 minutes to complete the swap and get the new system running .
28 Both can run the same software , and Telecom Eire , a new Alpha user , says it takes only 30 minutes to upgrade VAX to Alpha .
29 Since the insect and the scorpion are 30 genetic units distant from one another , it takes only 30 generations to evolve from one to the other if you never take a wrong turning ; if , that is , you know exactly what genetic formula you are heading towards , and how to steer towards it .
30 No fewer than three railway stations offer a fast service to Paris ; and at night it takes only twenty minutes to drive from the town 's centre to the Etoile .
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