Example sentences of "take i [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again . |
| 2 | I invented a task for myself , which would take me that way . |
| 3 | ‘ It might take me all summer , but I 'll do it . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , it would take me some time to put my hands on that amount of money . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took me all day . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 15 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 16 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 17 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 18 | Well if I 'm going to read this er at all properly it 's going to take me all afternoon is n't it ? |
| 19 | But he is going to take me some day this week to some lovely woods he knows . |
| 20 | It was to take me some time longer to undergo the metamorphosis from a ‘ teacher ’ to a ‘ lecturer ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I can see that it 's going to take me some time to get an answer from the hospital , and I have yet to sort out this business of the air-conditioning . |
| 22 | It 's going to take me some time to type that list . |