Example sentences of "it took all " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 2 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 3 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 4 | It took all his time to wash and shave . |
| 5 | It took all his willpower to keep his teeth biting into the rubber . |
| 6 | It took all the strength of Perdita 's frantically squeezing legs to stop her ducking out . |
| 7 | It took all five teachers and the matron to lift the enormous woman and stagger with her out of the room . |
| 8 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 10 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 11 | It took all my Irish blarney to keep us out of court . ’ |
| 12 | Still , it took all sorts . |
| 13 | It took all my strength and nerve to control the final inch of its closing . |
| 14 | ‘ It took all the stacks up — tons and tons — and simply took 'em up like that off the ground and scattered them over the fields . |
| 15 | It took all his willpower and concentration to banish the sound of it , and fix heart and soul on the celebration of the Mass . |
| 16 | It took all evening . |
| 17 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 18 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 19 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 20 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 21 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 22 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 23 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 24 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 25 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
| 26 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 27 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 28 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 29 | It took all day to cross the Nullarbor . |
| 30 | Even so , it took all his self-control not to lose his temper with Madge Grimsilk , for Therese , in the dark sapphire Rosa Ponselle gown , studded all over with flashing blue stones and with the huge peacock train spreading out behind her , was outstanding , so outstanding that the rest of the cast , pleased with their own designs but quick to recognize a ‘ star ’ outfit , burst into a little patter of applause . |