Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 2 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 3 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 4 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 5 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 6 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 7 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 8 | It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’ |
| 9 | It took me ten minutes just to stop shaking so I could walk . |
| 10 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |
| 11 | Erm yo there was so many trains into Nottingham , into Victoria at twelve minutes , it took you thirty minutes into the Midland Station , having called at and , and all sorts of places on the way . |
| 12 | If it took you 15 minutes then you were walking at 4 m.p.h. : Speed = Distance/Time = 1 mile/0.25 hours |
| 13 | It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking . |
| 14 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 15 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |
| 16 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 17 | It took him several minutes before he could talk . |
| 18 | It took him 20 minutes . |
| 19 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 20 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 21 | It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again . |
| 22 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |
| 23 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |