Example sentences of "took him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking . |
| 2 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 3 | It was a last-minute dash that took him five and a half hours to reach Heathrow Airport . |
| 4 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 5 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 6 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 7 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 8 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 9 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 10 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 11 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 12 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 13 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 14 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 15 | It took him 14 more laps before he could squeeze alongside Brundle , and run him wheel-to-wheel through the same right-left-right triple turn . |
| 16 | In July 1815 Hodgskin embarked on a walking tour which took him first to Paris and later to Germany , where he made a detailed study of the political and economic institutions of Hanover . |
| 17 | His search for Tess took him first to Flintcomb-Ash , where he discovered she had never used her married name . |
| 18 | But I took him first to Connor 's Quay to join a sh erm ship there . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh . |
| 21 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 22 | took him two reactions , |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 28 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 29 | The question took him off-guard . |
| 30 | It took him four or five visits before he asked her if he could unstrap what he called his piece of timber . |