Example sentences of "take [pron] all [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll take them all morning to cover the kids from the school . |
| 2 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll take you all dragon boat racing in Hong Kong harbour if you pay for the flights ! ’ replied Paul . |
| 4 | oh yeah , it 'll take him all day to get ready for it , psyching himself up , mentally prepare himself to get into the kitchen |
| 5 | do that tonight , cos it 'll take it all week to dry ! |
| 6 | He would take us all day for 1,000 bhat . |
| 7 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 8 | It took me all day . |
| 9 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 10 | Peace took them all prisoner . |
| 11 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 12 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 13 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 14 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 15 | ‘ Very nice , ’ said Joe , eyeing the purchases , she 'd set out on the bed , ‘ but explain why it 's taken you all day . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So what did you do after that — it ca n't have taken you all day ? ’ |
| 17 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 18 | It would have taken him all day even if they 'd had enough tarmac in the back of the pickup ! |
| 19 | Mr Holmes added : ‘ They certainly caused a mess and its taken us all morning trying to patch it up . |
| 20 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 21 | Take you all day going all round with a twelfth would n't it . |