Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] take [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ This has all taken rather longer than we anticipated . |
| 2 | The board encompasses the entire Earth : the only game ever attempted has already taken almost a billion years and shows no signs of a conclusion . |
| 3 | It has already taken almost two months to prepare the document and get it endorsed internally . |
| 4 | John Reeves has always taken almost more delight in doing this than anything else and I thank God for that . |
| 5 | He has also taken quickly to the Boat Race . |
| 6 | As well as giving Graham round the clock attention , the search for a cure has often taken both Kathleen and her husband away from their home and their daughters . |
| 7 | Literary criticism has often taken precisely this assumption as its starting point , and has presumed that a literary text is not necessarily saying what it intends to say or even what it appears to say — hence the need for critical interpretation . |
| 8 | ‘ Having three-dimensional viewing has almost taken away my desire to go down there myself ’ , says , director of the group 's science projects . |
| 9 | With migraines results often take longer , but the attacks soon become less frequent and their intensity decreases . |
| 10 | This chapter refuses however to take either Bourdieu or his critics at their word . |
| 11 | Only takes about takes about ten , not even that , to get to Witham station to get like to London and Kingston and e all your other sort |
| 12 | Well it means just taking apart . |
| 13 | And the number of U K holidays taken , domestic holidays in this country , that figure fell by seventeen percent and yet we can see here that holidays actually taken abroad by U K residents rose a staggering fifty seven percent over the four year period . |
| 14 | If I 've got to print them off from my computer and the computer 's er not exactly in bits but it 's just taken apart a bit at the moment so I need to put it back together again and print them off . |
| 15 | So it works sometimes take away but sometimes you get things like ooh let's see er I 'm making a mess of this you can write it out nicely . |