Example sentences of "it took [pron] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 2 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 3 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 4 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 5 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 6 | The Socialist People 's Libyan Arab Jamahariyah became independent ( as the United Kingdom of Libya ) in 1951 ; it took its present name after a military coup in 1969 . |
| 7 | West Indies have won only two of their last 14 matches , and then it took them six games in this season 's World Series Cup to win another . |
| 8 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 9 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 10 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |
| 11 | It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back . |
| 14 | ‘ When we were setting up our flagship London/Glasgow service , it took us seven months of negotiation with BR to get an acceptable time slot , ’ he claimed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took my last reserves of strength and will to reach it and then to heave myself in . |