Example sentences of "take me [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I 've just took me blooming jacks .
2 I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly .
3 ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song .
4 It takes me many minutes to sort it out , as each released dog shows marked enthusiasm for getting tangled up again .
5 ‘ If it takes me seven centuries , I shall do it . ’
6 It 'll take me fifty minutes
7 It would take me two weeks to reveal all that I know . ’
8 It will take me bleeding years to reach my goal
9 oh that wo n't take me five minutes to do that , it wo n't
10 It 'll only take me five minutes .
11 It would take me Fucking years to type in the details of all the players and the rules to distribute them .
12 should give it me this gon na take me three weeks cracking these almonds
13 ‘ I 'll only take me ten minutes
14 So it would take me twenty hours of I drive at six miles an hour .
15 It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull .
16 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 .
17 I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er
18 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 .
19 It took me two minutes to decide .
20 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
21 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 .
22 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 . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school !
26 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 ) .
27 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 . ’
28 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 .
29 Took me thirty seconds to make that gravy .
30 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 .
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