Example sentences of "take [pers pn] three [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
| 2 | That if you work in the big city you might only have seven miles between calls but it still takes you three quarters of an hour . |
| 3 | Make sure he takes it three times a day . |
| 4 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 5 | should give it me this gon na take me three weeks cracking these almonds |
| 6 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 7 | It would take him three days to reach Tracy with a small army and cumbersome siege machines slowing him down — what did one hour more or less matter ? |
| 8 | A self-taught blacksmith has won a prestige commission to create new gates for Hereford Cathedral.The job will take him three months to complete . |
| 9 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 10 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 11 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 12 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 13 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 14 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 15 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 16 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 17 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 18 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 19 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 20 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
| 21 | It took them three afternoons . |
| 22 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 23 | " Tilda , I only took you three months ago . |
| 24 | It took him three attempts to insert the key into the padlock . |
| 25 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
| 26 | It took him three years . |
| 27 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 28 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |
| 29 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 30 | I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back . |