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 . |