Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] some [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies .
2 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
3 And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense .
4 But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets .
5 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
6 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
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