Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adv] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
| 2 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
| 3 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 4 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And it shows how some people get on . |
| 7 | The Shorts 360 comes into its own in the summer season , with frequent bus-stop services between the major islands , and it carries out some charters to the mainland to improve its utilisation . |