Example sentences of "took he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 2 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 3 | It took him a second to work out what it was , that it was the sheep galloping . |
| 4 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 5 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 6 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 7 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it . |
| 9 | It took him a moment . |
| 10 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 11 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 12 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 13 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 14 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 15 | The Adjudicator was pale , and it took him a moment to formulate a reply . |
| 16 | It took him a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 17 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 18 | It took him a moment to realize what she meant . |
| 19 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 20 | I bet it took him a week to think that one up . |
| 21 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
| 22 | ‘ And the answer is : I took him a letter . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Bill Pilkington gets to work on the D&S crossword , which took him a mere six-and-a-half minutes . |
| 24 | Took him a while now he 's a very nice chap . |
| 25 | Took him a while to calm down . |
| 26 | But now yeah it took him a while to calm down but he 's a very nice fellow now , very nice chap . |
| 27 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 28 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 29 | Lamb was on 99 and it took him an age next morning to reach the hundred , his first since 1984 . |
| 30 | It took him an hour . |