Example sentences of "it took him [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 2 | It took him nearly two hours to find the hole into the mine . |
| 3 | It took him nearly eleven months to die , at Providence Place , Lady Pool Lane , his Birmingham home , on 12 March 1872 . |
| 4 | The snow was almost knee-deep ; it took him nearly ten minutes to reach the hedge at the other side of the field . |
| 5 | It was obvious he was good , it was obvious he should be in FI , but somehow he dallied and twiddled and procrastinated and did n't get around to it seriously until he was thirty-six years old and then it took him only three years to become champion . |
| 6 | It took him only 33 balls . |
| 7 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 8 | But it took him almost five hours and contained just four fours . |
| 9 | It took him about 150 hours to complete , and won him a City and Guilds senior award for excellence . |