Example sentences of "take we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main there 'ere is , we have n't actually changed our position we have actually stated clearly that we wanted to achieve something , we wanted to make sure that what was being provided in that community was the best best thing possible within the resources available and that things developed on This amendment takes us that way forward and we are at least being clear to our principles rather than just being negatively obstructive . |
| 2 | Whenever we 're organising fund raising events , it usually takes us several weeks to get everything organised . |
| 3 | It clearly takes us some way , but there are still major difficulties . |
| 4 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 5 | ‘ That will take us four hours , getting us in at midnight . |
| 6 | But at least two years because it would take us that time to furnish the house . |
| 7 | He would take us all day for 1,000 bhat . |
| 8 | Yeah so that 'll take us , and do four role plays , that will take us two hours and twenty minutes , is that alright ? |
| 9 | Well we can we can but as I said , the two lads who know about it , who could do it , they said well it might take us two days . |
| 10 | With our three kids , all under six , settled in their beds we considered the next stage , which would take us 370 miles further to our destination . |
| 11 | So I mean it 's seventy miles so it should only take us another hour . |
| 12 | Given my concentration so far on the possession/separation issue , and its relation to the circulation process , and given my earlier insistence that economic class relations at the level of possession/separation can not be conceived as the underlying ‘ essence ’ of social and political collectivities and movements , which demand analysis in their own right , I am not yet in a position to draw full ‘ political conclusions ’ ( the following chapters will take us some way further in this direction ) . |
| 13 | Crikey that did n't take us any time at all . |
| 14 | No , does n't fit on it 's stopped recording change the change the tape so a su but going back to that she was so convinced that it was gon na be a heck of a job that she would save us time by taking all the clothes out putting them somewhere else and I said it 'll take us three minutes |
| 15 | The administrator took us one floor up in a lift big enough to ferry a helicopter to the roof . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 18 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 19 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |
| 20 | It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again . |
| 21 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |
| 22 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 23 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 24 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 25 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 26 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 27 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 28 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 29 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |
| 30 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |