Example sentences of "[coord] it took [adj] [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 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
4 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
5 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
6 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
7 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
8 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
9 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
12 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
13 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
14 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
15 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
16 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
17 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
18 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
19 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
20 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
21 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |