Example sentences of "it took he [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it .
2 It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again .
3 It took him a long time to recover .
4 The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef .
5 There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid .
6 Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened .
7 It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth .
8 It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun .
9 It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea .
10 It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously .
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