Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [num] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 4 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 5 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 6 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 7 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 8 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 9 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
| 10 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 11 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 12 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 13 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 14 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |