Example sentences of "[pers pn] takes [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now she takes such pleasure in the simplest things . ’ |
| 2 | She takes such pleasure in the simplest things ’ |
| 3 | But once he or she takes that first drink in any day there is no prediction of when that drinking bout will stop . |
| 4 | If she takes that for more than seven days it can poison her system . |
| 5 | She takes little exercise , does not even walk much , and prefers to use the car or public transport . |
| 6 | Implicit contract theory suggests that if the agent is risk neutral , he or she takes all the risk . |
| 7 | My wife will er at night time she locks all the doors , she takes all keys out . |
| 8 | She takes all key out . |
| 9 | She takes all them tapes away and Bet 's name 's not put on there . |
| 10 | She takes all these vitamin pills and god knows what else . |
| 11 | Well she takes all these tablet things . |
| 12 | But he said , I said it as a joke when she was asking me about my flying and I said I do n't do as much flying as I 'd like to , I 've , I 've got a wife to support and she takes all the money . |
| 13 | angina but she takes this spray |
| 14 | She takes several seconds to sniff up the whole of the line . |
| 15 | It takes much cranking of the engine with the starter motor to get going again — although the time it takes to fire up does vary . |
| 16 | This is a truly radical development for the church , because it takes much of its thinking from Marxism . |
| 17 | It takes much time . |
| 18 | Writing an Introduction As we have said , it takes much practice to be able to write essays well . |
| 19 | Subjectively , it takes much less time to display thirty lines of 72 point text at a magnification level of 15% that it would take to scroll through to find the bit you want to edit at 100% magnification . |
| 20 | It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment . |
| 21 | Says one inmate : ’ I do n't think it takes much to become a prison officer . |
| 22 | Like you say , it takes much more time to get into it . |
| 23 | Yet when asked how long it takes each week to prepare and construct the next sequence , Dr Postlethwait is accustomed to laugh heartily ( as he did when I asked him ) and reply , " Oh , about fifty hours . " |
| 24 | Fear is the key , and it takes many forms . |
| 25 | Discovering it takes many months . |
| 26 | I have also suggested that although research is a key component of professional practice , it takes many forms , and the various types of research I have described feed professional knowledge in many ways . |
| 27 | Although it takes many years for a child to master the process of reading , once acquired , the skills are comprehensive and flexible enough to cope with a diversity of written material in a variety of fonts and formats ( including previously unknown ones such as unfamiliar handwriting ) . |
| 28 | It takes many years for a human child to master the process of reading , even though they already possess established linguistic and cognitive subsystems . |
| 29 | It takes many years to perfect and rein-force the practices we saw in these pioneering plants . |
| 30 | Research , although it takes many forms , has recognisable characteristics . |