Example sentences of "took [pers pn] two " in BNC.

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1 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
2 But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it .
3 It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull .
4 He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’
5 It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were .
6 It took me two minutes to decide .
7 It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know .
8 Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business .
9 However , it took me two or three weeks to learn them , to pick them up .
10 I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er
11 As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost .
12 The journey took them two full days .
13 He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square .
14 It took them two days before they reached human habitation .
15 They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out .
16 but Portsmouth took , took them two matches , supposed to do it extra time like .
17 It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
18 It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh .
19 Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France .
20 took him two reactions ,
21 It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour .
22 The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete .
23 In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path .
24 In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future .
25 It took her two hours to put the curlers in !
26 It took us two turns through the arch before she decided .
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