Example sentences of "took them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them nineteen hundred years to decide , but then God dwells in eternity , and the Church too , so there 's no hurry . |
| 2 | The railway took them hundreds of miles east ( further away from Cape Town ) to Delagoa Bay in Lourenço Marques ; from there they were taken by ship to the Cape . |
| 3 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 4 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 5 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
| 6 | They ran , but it took them six . |
| 7 | Took them 26 years to win the title . |
| 8 | oh well I took them , took them regular , because |
| 9 | So if you took them that day you 'd be going while you were on duty ? |
| 10 | I wished you 'd know , you could have took them Milky Way for |
| 11 | It took them unaware , chilling their blood . |
| 12 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The journey took them two full days . |
| 15 | He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square . |
| 16 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | but Portsmouth took , took them two matches , supposed to do it extra time like . |
| 19 | When ARA famine officials went from Kazan' to Simbirsk in the autumn of 1921 , it took them four days to cover 150 miles . |
| 20 | It took them four fuming hours . |
| 21 | Then he took them all to Mexico . |
| 22 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 23 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 24 | Luckily the local hairdresser 's took them all so he did n't have to buy them . |
| 25 | The foresters of fee usually had the right to take ‘ cablish ’ — that is , dead and dry wood , and trees or branches blown down by the wind within their bailiwicks : in Bernwood Forest , if the wind felled ten trees ‘ in one night and one day ’ , the king took them all , but if there were less than ten , the forester of fee took them . |
| 26 | Yet Neil Kinnock nearly took them all the way . |
| 27 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 28 | John had not expected such an overwhelming response , and as not even the Ballroom itself could contain such large numbers , he took them all outside into the street to make his selection . |
| 29 | The river took them all away . |
| 30 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |