Example sentences of "[conj] it took [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 3 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 4 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 5 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 6 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 7 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 11 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 12 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 13 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 14 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 15 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 16 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 17 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 20 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |
| 21 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 22 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 23 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 24 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 25 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 26 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | Stuart Taylor was lucky enough to be on RF325 as it took its last bow . |