Example sentences of "[coord] it took [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 2 | A hay rake full of wet , rotting leaves can be very heavy , and it took around twenty heavings as a rule to clear enough to stop the pipe gasping for breath — or , rather , water . |
| 3 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
| 4 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 5 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 6 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 7 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 8 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 9 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |