Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 2 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 3 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 4 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 9 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 11 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |