Example sentences of "it took [adv] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 2 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 3 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 4 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 5 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 6 | It took just ten seconds to transfer the limp bodies . |
| 7 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 8 | It took around six months to get to the quality audit stage and we were then able to invite in the assessor . ’ |
| 9 | Before the advent of machine spinning it took around six spinners to supply a weaver with yarn , and the putting-out reach of clothiers seeking yarn extended well beyond the perimeter of weaving . |
| 10 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 11 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 12 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 13 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 14 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 15 | It took almost three days to make the appointments necessary to meet three local judges . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 18 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 19 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |
| 20 | ‘ It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
| 21 | It took only 40 minutes to get there which is quite satisfactory . |
| 22 | In fact it is more of a puzzle to work out why it took so many decades to become established ( Hatton 1986 ) . |
| 23 | Which is a nice promise to make but when you 've got so many thousand houses to get through it took about six months to set the scheme up . |
| 24 | And once the springs were cleared again , and all the junk removed , I 've , I did n't mention that it , it took about six months to get all the junk , prams and barbed wire and tins etcetera etcetera , removed , before you could actually start anything . |
| 25 | Mind , it took about eight weeks to achieve that desirable state , and all they did was to give me some tablets , good food , rest and lots of kindness . |
| 26 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 27 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |