Example sentences of "but it [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 2 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 6 | True that the railway did not invent much of this beauty , but it gave us new vistas of it . |