Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My boyfriend and I have been going out for six weeks and everything is wonderful but it takes me honestly two hours to reach orgasm . |
2 | Mhm I wan na go to because then I get a and it takes me about half an hour to get home . |
3 | No , it only takes me about forty minute , no hold on ! |
4 | Well it takes me about twenty sa minutes to get dressed , changed . |
5 | It takes me about three to six months to obtain a pair and then I have to have what is on offer . |
6 | It takes me so long ! |
7 | It takes them all some time to understand it . |
8 | As you drive from our patchwork countryside into towns like Saumur , Angers , Nantes or Le Mans , your journey takes you back hundreds of years . |
9 | Well seven nines , well ee er , it takes you so long |
10 | I mean you 've got , it takes you so long to place things and |
11 | It takes you about three hours ! |
12 | Whereas she ca n't stand doing the pictures cos it takes her too much time . |
13 | You know , once a woman 's got a name as a neurotic no one takes her seriously any more . |
14 | Well i if his mate comes in , like he 's got a good mate , so if his mate comes in he releases his mate early so if he releases him early , he could be er it takes him about thirty five to forty minutes . |
15 | And er , it was very amusing , but repeatable , half the things he wrote in it , and erm , it 's very , it was very good , but , he is quite good at that when he sets his mind to it , it usually takes him about three days to do it , but he does like to er , write messages in people 's cards . |
16 | Yeah , it only takes him about ten minutes to get home . |
17 | ‘ It takes him about seven hours to get home , ’ said Bridget . |
18 | So Trish takes him out one day lost the ball ! |
19 | Leaned , that aircraft will fly 116 miles on the same fuel which takes it only 100 miles in rich . |
20 | Nozick takes it therefore that for a to know that p we require that a would not have believed that p if p had been false . |
21 | My argument is that statecentrism , whether in its directly state-centrist form or in indirect forms , takes us quite far but not far enough . |
22 | It takes us about forty minutes to get there |
23 | The novel with two endings does n't reproduce this reality : it merely takes us down two diverging paths . |
24 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
25 | It takes us back 20 years . |
26 | They had to plan a route that would take them over 50 kilometres in a three day period . |
27 | It did not take them very long to get the hang of it , scraping carefully with the blade at an angle of forty-five degrees and pausing from time to time in order to wipe it clean . |
28 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
29 | The horse box is now their next job , and this will take them about four years . |
30 | Mostly , they bought on credit because they did not have the cash , or because it would take them too long to save it up . |