Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've not even took them out the thing . |
| 2 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 3 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 4 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 5 | There 's a lot of traffic here and it takes me quite a bit to cross all the roads to get to where I want . |
| 6 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 7 | Takes me about an hour to get it out of her . |
| 8 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 9 | Erm , it 's a city , this takes me back a few months , since the Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry , the character , special character of a city , is derives from a number of elements , there 's the green wedges which centre on the strays which penetrate into the heart of the built up area , there is the encircling belt of open countryside which links those areas together , there are the numerous settlements within the greenbelt and their relationship to one another , and to the city of York . |
| 10 | However , the route takes them over a culvert near the hospital . |
| 11 | This is the so-called ‘ poverty-trap ’ of the lower paid : a small increase in earning takes them over a threshold , whereby they may lose certain welfare benefits and at the same time have to pay a disproportionately large increase in tax on their original income . |
| 12 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 13 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 14 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 15 | er it 's an event held in The Gallery and er we have got er ski experts coming er , equipment people ; we have got the latest ski simulator coming down from Dorset , which enables people to actually get inside and it takes you down the Val de Zere er no , yes , takes you down the Val de Zere downhill and it really is quite impressive . |
| 16 | er it 's an event held in The Gallery and er we have got er ski experts coming er , equipment people ; we have got the latest ski simulator coming down from Dorset , which enables people to actually get inside and it takes you down the Val de Zere er no , yes , takes you down the Val de Zere downhill and it really is quite impressive . |
| 17 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 18 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 19 | It 's a great way for producing long banners or waste paper but And if you wan na actually reverse this process alt M takes it back the other way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Well perhaps we can manage it on a chair , then I can take them up the Stow and put them in the cleaning machine . |
| 22 | What I 'll do , I 'll pass you the box and then you can take them out a bit at a time cos I 've sorted them . |
| 23 | I 'll just take the two , and Billy 'll take them out the next week . |
| 24 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 25 | However , they paid little or no attention to her , and Lucy guessed that their minds were too occupied with the exciting venture which would take them down the foaming white waters of the river . |
| 26 | Anyway we can sort the problem because you 'll take them back a wo n't you ? put them outside your house , creating a smell they were playing up . |
| 27 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 28 | I made him take me on a bit farther at the risk of him thinking I lacked the right sexual tactics . |
| 29 | Well can Clay take me up the bingo ? |
| 30 | Like , you know , I saw like , what really , I 'd sat there , I mean like you say , I and I admit that I odds and ends that 'll probably take me about an hour in total |