MIAMI - Herring15
Instances of took for speaker BRA

351BRAmy dad told me that when he was out there building the house (be)cause my dad was in Notre_Dame he took [//] it took him six years to graduate .
  mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG toldtold.V.PAST meme.PRON.OBJ.1S thatthat.CONJ.[or].that.DEM.FAR whenwhen.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S waswas.V.3S.PAST outout.ADV therethere.ADV buildingunk thethe.DET.DEF househouse.N.SG becausebecause.CONJ mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG waswas.V.3S.PAST inin.PREP Notre_Damename hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S tooktake.V.PAST itit.PRON.SUB.3S tooktake.V.PAST himhim.PRON.OBJ.M.3S sixsix.NUM yearsyear.N.PL toto.PREP graduategraduate.N.SG .
  
351BRAmy dad told me that when he was out there building the house (be)cause my dad was in Notre_Dame he took [//] it took him six years to graduate .
  mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG toldtold.V.PAST meme.PRON.OBJ.1S thatthat.CONJ.[or].that.DEM.FAR whenwhen.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S waswas.V.3S.PAST outout.ADV therethere.ADV buildingunk thethe.DET.DEF househouse.N.SG becausebecause.CONJ mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG waswas.V.3S.PAST inin.PREP Notre_Damename hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S tooktake.V.PAST itit.PRON.SUB.3S tooktake.V.PAST himhim.PRON.OBJ.M.3S sixsix.NUM yearsyear.N.PL toto.PREP graduategraduate.N.SG .
  
356BRAbut it took my dad six years (be)cause he took a year off and moved to Roatan and built our house out there .
  butbut.CONJ itit.PRON.SUB.3S tooktake.V.PAST mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG sixsix.NUM yearsyear.N.PL becausebecause.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S tooktake.V.PAST aa.DET.INDEF yearyear.N.SG offoff.PREP andand.CONJ movedmove.V.INFIN+AV toto.PREP Roatanname andand.CONJ builtbuilt.AV.PAST ourour.ADJ.POSS.1P househouse.N.SG outout.ADV therethere.ADV .
  
356BRAbut it took my dad six years (be)cause he took a year off and moved to Roatan and built our house out there .
  butbut.CONJ itit.PRON.SUB.3S tooktake.V.PAST mymy.ADJ.POSS.1S daddad.N.SG sixsix.NUM yearsyear.N.PL becausebecause.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S tooktake.V.PAST aa.DET.INDEF yearyear.N.SG offoff.PREP andand.CONJ movedmove.V.INFIN+AV toto.PREP Roatanname andand.CONJ builtbuilt.AV.PAST ourour.ADJ.POSS.1P househouse.N.SG outout.ADV therethere.ADV .
  
580BRAthey took me in and [/] and they put me to sleep like as soon as I got there .
  theythey.PRON.SUB.3P tooktake.V.PAST meme.PRON.OBJ.1S inin.PREP andand.CONJ andand.CONJ theythey.PRON.SUB.3P putput.V.3P.PRES meme.PRON.OBJ.1S toto.PREP sleepsleep.N.SG likelike.CONJ asas.CONJ soonsoon.ADV asas.CONJ II.PRON.SUB.1S gotgot.V.PAST therethere.ADV .
  

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