Example sentences of "it took we [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took us 18 months to save for a holiday . |
| 2 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 3 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 4 | Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home . |
| 5 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |
| 6 | We 'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt , to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth , we went from Plymouth . |
| 7 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 8 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 9 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 10 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 11 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 12 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 13 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 14 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |