Example sentences of "take [pers pn] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it takes me over an hour to dry him . |
| 2 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 3 | It takes me quite a while to go through them cos I check every one careful like . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Takes me about an hour to get it out of her . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 9 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | twenty five minutes in a car and it takes you about an , an hour on the bus . |
| 12 | Given any number , it takes her only a second to work out the combination of smaller numbers which add up to it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | if you get a hole in a carpet maybe you could put your hand through , it would take you quite a |
| 16 | Did it take you quite a long time to get to sleep ? |
| 17 | Walk along the sea front from Langney to Meads ; it will take you about an hour . |
| 18 | ‘ And if the old skinflint wo n't give it to me I shall take it just the same . |
| 19 | That what the inspector 's been telling us year after year , that we are in serious danger of not coming up to the protection safety standards , is something that we ca n't push into the background any longer and I 'm very glad it 's come to the full council so that the whole council can take it seriously the public protection committee has taken it seriously for a very long time . |
| 20 | how did they take it then the lads ? |
| 21 | As someone who has to ask occasionally for a care package for an individual , do I take it then the penultimate paragraph that this is the planning , you know , how you 're going to produce a care package for an individual , this is what you refer to in the planning system , and that you 're getting together with Social Services to get this care package together ? |
| 22 | ‘ It will take us about an hour to get there . |
| 23 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 24 | From when I was very young , my father had nurtured a love of art in me ; I shared a great deal with him ( he took me nearly every Sunday to the Louvre ) and was close to him until his death . |
| 25 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 26 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 27 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 28 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 29 | It took me quite a few years to realize that my timing was terrible — the repercussions of being born then were enormous . |
| 30 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |