Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | While loading Frankenstein I took some time to read the inlay . |
| 2 | I took more time off than usual after the World Championships , feeling that I needed a break . |
| 3 | Are you taking more time as you go along ? |
| 4 | ’ You took enough time , ’ she panted . |
| 5 | God you take enough time . |
| 6 | Er , and if your Lordship is happy to do that then I can open it now and indicate what the case is about and invite you to take some time . |
| 7 | We took more time over the song-writing and all chipped in together . ’ |
| 8 | In the last two chapters we took some time to reach the chosen texts . |
| 9 | In spite of the garden we took some time to get accustomed to our new way of living . |
| 10 | I said , I 'm afraid erm , you know , that so he , he had to take some time , er , we ha we took some time to find the book of the words which |
| 11 | They take some time to load programs and try the patience of young pupils . |
| 12 | It takes much time . |
| 13 | It takes much time and effort to find recorded music that is suitable as movement accompaniment . |
| 14 | ‘ If you start with a new house and new furniture it is usually about five years before anybody can get asthma in that house : it takes that time for the mite dung deposits to build up . |
| 15 | As the Governor observed , it takes more time to change attitudes , but he thought that progress was being made here too and that the new recruitment would accelerate the process . |
| 16 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 17 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 18 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 19 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 20 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 21 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 22 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 23 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 24 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 25 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 26 | It takes some time , and a few false tries ( you may well ask why a solitary hoopoe bird is even now patrolling the Solent with the sacred shamir-stone in its beak ) but , eventually , the proper chapter and verse comes back to me . |
| 27 | It takes some time , you may conclude , to become dark blue . ’ |
| 28 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
| 29 | Cec was a clever , goalscoring inside or centre-forward although , as his career records show , he took some time to come to terms with the standard required in Division Two of the Football League . |
| 30 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |