Example sentences of "take i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | It took me all day . |
| 33 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 34 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 35 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 36 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 37 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 38 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 39 | Took me thirty seconds to make that gravy . |
| 40 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 41 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 42 | it took me five times |
| 43 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 44 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 45 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | ‘ 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 58 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 59 | ‘ 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 . |
| 60 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |