Example sentences of "take i [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 2 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 3 | Erm If I 've got sixty miles to do , and I do it at erm do it at sixty miles an hour , it takes me one hour . |
| 4 | ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’ |
| 5 | It 'll take me fifty minutes |
| 6 | It would take me two weeks to reveal all that I know . ’ |
| 7 | oh that wo n't take me five minutes to do that , it wo n't |
| 8 | It 'll only take me five minutes . |
| 9 | should give it me this gon na take me three weeks cracking these almonds |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes … |
| 11 | So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour . |
| 12 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 13 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 14 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 15 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 16 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 17 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 18 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 19 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 20 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 22 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Took me thirty seconds to make that gravy . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |