Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] take some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 2 | And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off . |
| 3 | ‘ Next year we 'll take some time off and go to Italy together , ’ her mother had said . |
| 4 | The producers of all these programmes are inundated with cassette tapes from bands , so they may take some time before listening to them all . |
| 5 | I take it , it will mostly be building new prisons , but they will take some time , especially if the Ministry of Works have anything to do with the plans . |
| 6 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 7 | It may take some time ! |
| 8 | It may take some time before a beginner experiences it , but performance will not become efficient until she does . |
| 9 | Because he does n't drive a car , it may take some time . |
| 10 | The potential mobility of non-motorized persons is also enhanced , though it may take some time ( and , probably , more measures ) for the modal split to change significantly . |
| 11 | Jockey Club senior steward Lord Hartington said last night : ‘ We will certainly continue the campaign until we win but , sadly , it may take some time . |
| 12 | ‘ It may take some time . ’ |
| 13 | It may take some time to program this technique as it has to take into account all foreseeable circumstances . |
| 14 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 15 | It may take some time before matters settle down again and action proceeds quasi-automatically according to revised schemas . |
| 16 | Bear in mind that it may take some time for the police to arrive . |
| 17 | So I think it may take some time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It may take some time to discover anything — if I can discover anything , that is . ’ |
| 19 | It may take some time to get the team of volunteers together again . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'll take some time , not today , ’ said Mr Reichmann following the briefing of bankers in Toronto on Monday afternoon . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh , well April is Easter , April nineteen , twenty , twenty one , twenty two , and it looks like your father he said he might take some time in n it ? |
| 22 | ‘ So it could take some time ? ’ |
| 23 | It could take some time . ’ |
| 24 | Jason Donovan was also eleven , at school in Melbourne and also launching his acting career in Skyways , which he found exciting because it meant he could take some time off school . |
| 25 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 26 | It would take some time , but that did n't matter . |
| 27 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 28 | It would take some time for the news to get around . |
| 29 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 30 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |