Example sentences of "and [pers pn] took [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get four miles they covered twenty , and they took nearly two hours . |
| 2 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 3 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |