Example sentences of "took us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took us two turns through the arch before she decided . |
| 2 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 3 | The administrator took us one floor up in a lift big enough to ferry a helicopter to the roof . |
| 4 | So a sergeant named Jimmy Barlow — he took us all down . |
| 5 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 6 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 7 | At Mohnyin ten convalescent officers and twenty-eight men , the two faithful sergeants and myself got off the hospital train and made for the hospital of the BCMS where Dr Russell and the two nursing sisters took us all in and gave medical treatment to those needing it . |
| 8 | The dead children 's distraught grandfather Trevor said last night : ‘ Garry took us all out for a big family meal and then on Sunday we had a lovely picnic by a lake . |
| 9 | Emma took us all on a bumpy buggy ride over to the second stage , until it was confiscated by security . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember when in 1987 he took us all to a castle near Como , ’ says Adriano Galliani , Milan 's managing director . |
| 11 | One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths . |
| 12 | He took us all in with one sombre glance . |
| 13 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 14 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
| 15 | Sure I d I mean the day he took us , took us all out for dinner |
| 16 | Took us all me time to get out of bed at nine o'clock . |
| 17 | The whole walk from Milngavie to Fort William took us six days . ’ |
| 18 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |
| 19 | It took us eight very wet and almost windless days to inch our way up the ninety miles of the Bouton Straits before we could turn eastwards into the Banda Sea . |
| 20 | Habituating a community of chimpanzees — gaining their acceptance as we followed their daily movements through the forest , and learning to recognise the animals as individuals — took us five years . |
| 21 | It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again . |
| 22 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 23 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 24 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 25 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 26 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 27 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 28 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |
| 29 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 30 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |