Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [pron] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , meeting in Washington on April 26-28 , approved massive financial backing for the former Soviet republics on the condition that they took rigorous action to privatize and stabilize their economies . |
| 2 | I thank my hon. Friend for the time and trouble that he took last week to visit my constituency and see at first hand the problems caused by and resulting from British Rail . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 7 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 8 | Certainly men at the central station boasted proudly of the fact that they took more prisoners per year than any other division in the whole force . |