Example sentences of "that it [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 2 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 3 | Dear god , everything is so wrong , look , it took you six days to make the world , but does it say in the bible that it took you fifteen days to design it , oh no you just got up and decided to make the world . |
| 4 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 5 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 6 | can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement . |
| 7 | The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home . |
| 8 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 9 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 10 | Another noteworthy aspect of Circumspecte agatis is that it reminds us that legislation at that time was by no means limited to parliamentary acts , but could result from decisions of the king and his councillors , expressed in general writs to his justices and sheriffs . |
| 11 | Not that it did them any good . |