Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] some [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 5 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 9 | As it floated some plants became caught in the wood and the roots inbeded themselves and began to grow there . |