Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 2 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 3 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 4 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 5 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 6 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 7 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 8 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 9 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 10 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 11 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 12 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 13 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 14 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 15 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 16 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 17 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 18 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 19 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 20 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 21 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 22 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 23 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 24 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 25 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 26 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 27 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 28 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |
| 29 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 30 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |