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

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1 It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward .
2 ‘ It always takes her some time to get ready She 'll be along later . ’
3 She 's engaging brain it takes her some time to come out to the phone instruct the whole thing .
4 When he 's finished someone takes him some water and he drinks it , spilling it over his face and down his chest and bare legs and feet .
5 It clearly takes us some way , but there are still major difficulties .
6 A skilled Nottingham engineer 's daughter of the 1920s remembers her father ‘ would never go to see his parents unless he could take them some money
7 But with any luck it will take them some time to realise that we know how to play it better than they do . ’
8 It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier .
9 ‘ In real life it would take them some time to get this boat ready to go to sea .
10 They 'd have to walk the road in both directions , and it would take them some time .
11 ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money .
12 Oh I 'll take you some time then , I love it .
13 I got ta take him some letters .
14 I was gon na take her some eggs as well .
15 ‘ I 'll take her some daffodils . ’
16 Although Aith lifeboat had been launched it would take her some time to reach the island , so Mr Williamson spoke by radio to four fishing vessels at the scene .
17 This may take her some time to really believe ( probably not until she 's around three ) , but eventually it 'll give her a healthier respect for the pain of others .
18 It will take her some time
19 ‘ Seems they intend to , but it 'll take 'em some time .
20 Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) .
21 I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration .
22 When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well .
23 It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly .
24 It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch .
25 It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business .
26 I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there .
27 It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution .
28 When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation .
29 This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem .
30 Having only recently arrived in the Province , this is the first ti me he has had to do them , and they are taking him some ti me .
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