Example sentences of "[verb] to take time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 2 | Then of course if you want to take time off and things like that . |
| 3 | Social workers may need to take time to clarify the nature of the social and family network , and the reciprocal exchanges within it . |
| 4 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 5 | Have you ever had to take time off for health reasons ? |
| 6 | I 've had to take time off work to get my ticket . |
| 7 | So today it was lessons at home for some of the class provided by parents who 'd had to take time off work . |
| 8 | To achieve all this is going to take time , patience , and careful planning . |
| 9 | That is going to take time , ’ sighed Mr Linnett . |
| 10 | I 'm not saying that we are getting there , it 's going to take time . |
| 11 | ‘ Why is the INCUBUS problem going to take time to get to grips with ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 13 | ‘ This is going to take time , ’ he said , adding that he does not yet have plans for IBM — he has to first learn the company by meeting executives , managers and employees . |
| 14 | People keep saying it 's going to take time before I get back to where I was , but I want it to happen sooner . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to take time out to tell you something . ’ |
| 16 | ( Inward groan , this is going to take time . ) |
| 17 | It 's going to take time for you to get back to full strength and you 've no-one to blame but yourself . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's going to take time , ’ said Milton . |
| 19 | But in those general objectives , we then set ourselves the top ten , top ten objectives and how we are going to actually action those objectives er to er move forward and if they were achieved , we thought if we achieved those ten objectives and that 's going to take time and as I say it 's a dynamic plan , it 's going to take two , three years to achieve and if we achieve those objectives then we will have achieved our own rule er our overall mission . |
| 20 | Obviously it 's going to take time , but he 'll be fine . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It has got to be the right people and it 's going to take time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ This is going to take time . |
| 23 | ‘ This is going to take time . |
| 24 | Learning which fashions will suit the new you is bound to take time . |
| 25 | It may be , however , that the other partners will wish to take time to consider the position , to wait upon particular events ( the outcome of bankruptcy proceedings , the settlement of financial or matrimonial problems etc ) . |
| 26 | He never seems to take time off : a friend tells of how Joey , Mr Lee 's young son , once protested by scrawling his own name in his father 's diary for an appointment . |
| 27 | Subscribers may have noticed the scepticism with which we have tended to greet analysts ' forecasts for IBM Corp 's earnings , and invariably their forecasts have proved too optimistic — but it seems to take time for the true awfulness of the situation to sink in with them . |
| 28 | You feel bad about having to take time off from work because of the children , e.g. sickness or a school function . |
| 29 | They should thus be open in the evenings and at weekends as well as during ordinary office hours so that working people can attend without having to take time off work . |
| 30 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |