Sentence examples for take for someone from inspiring English sources

"You need to consider the time it would take for someone to copy your idea.

I wanted to test the love of a father, to see just what it would take for someone to abandon his family.

How much money does it take for someone to agree to be tape recorded saying he is someone else — and that he committed a murder?

How long does it take for someone to count how many boxes are there?" He said his losses, if he was a victim, were "not too catastrophic", but he had friends with up to £2m deposited.

I'm willing to take bets on how quickly it will take for someone below the line to have a go at me for being snippy about the fifth pillar of Islam.

Electronic bids can be sent and received in less than the time it would take for someone to raise his hand and the auctioneer to spot it, said auctioneer Gary Murphy.

He might have been taken for someone at a washtub, though he swayed in a languid, trancelike manner.

Three months is the shockingly small amount of time it usually takes for someone to become homeless.

Now the rest of us can sit back and see how long it takes for someone to pick on Scaramucci.

For his last self-imperiling work, "Doomed" (1975), Burden lay on a floor in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art for as long as it took for someone to interrupt him.

Mr. Bosworth deleted the photo almost immediately, but a few seconds was all it took for someone to capture it for the permanent record that is the Internet.