Example sentences of "take [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.

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1 I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’
2 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
3 It is accurate , in aspiration , and The Archers takes serious trouble to get things right over the sowing and harvesting of crops .
4 It generally takes six months to get a tribunal hearing and it 's FREE .
5 If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride .
6 Er , you can set up these plans to start with a direct debit , which means it probably takes fourteen days to get that sorted with the bank , they 'll allow fourteen days .
7 The best rock attempts to make society better , even if it takes gross self-laceration to get to that point …
8 I put I think it takes nine times to get them across so if two boys go across and one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back , two boys goes go across one boy comes back one man goes across one boy comes back and two boys go across .
9 Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote .
10 He says , no it takes thirty days to get here .
11 It may take some perseverance to get the appropriate files brought out of store , but it is well worthwhile .
12 It may take some time to get the team of volunteers together again .
13 After seeing him , because he thought that once he 'd seen the consultant it would then take some time to get the treatment started , but they must have got themselves over that .
14 Although it may take some practice to get used to the idea of changing the seemingly natural number scale , you will soon find that you automatically consider whether a transformation would aid analysis when you first look at a batch of data .
15 And of course , as I 've told you , it would take some fiddle to get past Gran 's lynx 's eyes .
16 I know you 've had problems with her before , but I do n't think it 'll take much persuasion to get her to give up .
17 It can take 10 minutes to get off the train . ’
18 But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny .
19 No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ?
20 That does n't necessarily mean you will take more time to get around the golf course .
21 A strong young fellow like you does n't take thirty-five minutes to get here from the Kingsbrook bridge . ’
22 The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate .
23 Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way .
24 It 'll take 9 months to get back to normal .
25 Because it is calculated that a retained crew might take four minutes to get to the station the computer calculated other stations could respond quicker .
26 ‘ Since the INCUBUS investigation looks like taking some time to get off the ground I can at least devote my attention to this new one . ’
27 It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 .
28 Behind the external appearance of harshness and reserve lay sensitivity , suffering , even humour ; Wordsworth took some time to get to know , but those who dared to make the attempt were often agreeably surprised .
29 It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners .
30 In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living .
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