Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] two [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 2 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 3 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 4 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 6 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 7 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 8 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 9 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 10 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 11 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |