Example sentences of "[pron] took many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her tales of run-away wives , too-small dowries , adultery among the rich of Bombay ( which took many evenings ) and , most delicious , political corruption . |
| 2 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 3 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 4 | I stood outside my community , like the man who took many steps on Sabbath ’ ; ( concluding ) ‘ I will never be free from this tyranny . ’ |
| 5 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 6 | It took many forms . |
| 7 | It took many visits to reach our self-set target of non-respondents : thirty primary and thirty secondary teachers willing to discuss the Oxfordshire scheme and to go through the questionnaire orally with us . |
| 8 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 9 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 10 | The development of coloured carp appealed to the oriental penchant for patience and order , for it took many generations to produce recognisable bloodlines of Kohaku , Sanke or Showa . |
| 11 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 13 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 14 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 15 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 16 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 17 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 18 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 19 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 20 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 21 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 22 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 23 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |