Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When I wake up , I know summat 's up when I open my eyes and see it 's all bright , but it takes me a minute to remember where I am .
2 It takes me a while to get there .
3 It takes me a bit to remember where I am .
4 Aye they did although it takes me a bit of time to think about it but erm they did have a a er a black book , aye .
5 Er , it takes me an hour to get there , if I 'm lucky now at roadworks and charging time in one day , is like an hour to patch , then you 're out on to the patch , in between appointments running about because Derby 's quite a big area , er , again if you 've got to cover an appointment in Matlock and you 're in Derby in the morning you 're talking a good forty five minute run to get there .
6 So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads .
7 I would reckon I 'll be finished with Norman about ten o'clock it takes me an hour and a half to drive down half past eleven say I 'm in here about twelve o'clock right , cheers
8 If you 're buying them as young plants which are probably a foot fifteen inches high then it takes them a couple of years to get the roots established .
9 This this this is because the the Department of the Environment lost the paperwork for a year erm because apparently the Home Office are un incapable of reading documents unless they 're in order , and they take them in order and it takes them a year to read them .
10 ‘ Joyce always slowed it down a bit for Americans — takes them a while to tune in y'know . ’
11 So er , it only takes you a second to er copy from an adjacent cell but it could take you a minute or two to get that formula working again if it 's not copyable , erm , it would probably only takes you an extra few seconds er when you 're actually building the formula to make it , copyable in the first place so it 's well worth investing a few extra seconds up front to save you maybe a minute or so later on .
12 If it normally takes you a quarter of an hour to shave , make it take you half an hour .
13 And if it takes you a matter of seconds , you really need to address your security .
14 The carpet gets turned round , your favourite chair feels all wrong , and yet it only takes you an hour or two to wonder why it was obviously never done like this before .
15 If it only takes you an hour or two a week to run your administration , then you do n't yet need a computer .
16 It takes him a minute to realize what it is .
17 I mean they had twenty two thousand people round this year , it 's takes him a week to recover , the poor man .
18 It takes him a moment to regain his composure .
19 Banners on Parade ( BoP ) takes it a stage further and does it in Windows , adding graphics for visual effect .
20 She said : ‘ It takes us a year to save up and we try to put away £25 each every month .
21 The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day .
22 Rather it takes us a step away from understanding him .
23 The clear majority view in my group in Brussels is that though not perfect Maastricht takes us a step in the right direction , setting about building the sense of a community on the market place created by the nineteen eighty seven Single Act .
24 our next challenge takes us the length of Britain … two RAF sergeants from Hereford are on their way from John 0 Groats to Lands End … what 's new … they 're running … cycling … and swimming all the way
25 still gon na take them a couple of hours
26 From the other side of Portman Square I heard a police siren , which meant that the cavalry was on its way but with the traffic plugged solid it would take them a while .
27 ‘ Thought I 'd take them a cake , ’ he remarked .
28 But their sense of curiosity , their enquiring mind must always take them a stage farther … "
29 ‘ It will take me a couple of days before I can get organised , ’ he said .
30 ‘ I spotted the old Humber while I was on duty and at first thought it would take me a couple of years to restore — but eventually it took seven !
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