Example sentences of "it took [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 2 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 3 | ‘ It took ages to come out and we had no control over the artwork . |
| 4 | It took ages to believe that she was actually here . |
| 5 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 6 | It took ages to cross the line with the Pegasus players frozen in disbelief . |
| 7 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 8 | ‘ It took ages to cross the line , but overall I thought we deserved to win for our battling spirit , ’ he said . |
| 9 | It took ages before he twigged . |
| 10 | It took ages . |
| 11 | You know , it took ages to digest ! |
| 12 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |
| 13 | Because obviously you could do this by hand , you could do it by it took ages and could be very boring . |
| 14 | It took ages for me to be able to get a |
| 15 | It took ages . |
| 16 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 17 | IT TOOK experts three days to restore a 300 year old building after Annie Lennox filmed her latest video there . |
| 18 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |
| 19 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 20 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 21 | It took women 's liberation to politicise women 's discontent with sex and men , but how far has that reached the young mothers inside the traditional working-class communities of the industrial North ? |
| 22 | It took women 's liberation to formulate a different kind of positive intervention , one that seeks to protect the casualties and raise consciousness about the causes of violence . |
| 23 | Brave Gail Devers was suffering from Graves Disease but it took doctors two years to diagnose the crippling thyroid illness . |
| 24 | She was rushed to a hospital in Nottingham where it took doctors three hours to stabilise her condition . |
| 25 | He says that it took officers away from other duties . |
| 26 | It took hours and it was not until the late afternoon that he began the final copy . |
| 27 | Eventually , I managed to coax a strained fart from the horn , but it took hours of practice . |
| 28 | ‘ It took hours to sort that out , ’ said Milton wearily . |
| 29 | It took hours longer than I thought . |
| 30 | Sometimes it took hours and sometimes it did n't . |