Example sentences of "[adv] it took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how long it took Leicester to find a winner . |
| 2 | Gradually it took shape . |
| 3 | Similarly it took Germany well over twenty years from 1848 , to unify the various Houses which included Prussia , Saxony and Bavaria . |
| 4 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 5 | Sometimes it took hours and sometimes it did n't . |
| 6 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 7 | Sometimes it took weeks to persuade an owner to surrender his pet . |
| 8 | Even then it took time for those in Washington who favoured direct American military involvement as opposed to military aid or some loose Atlantic security system , to gain the ascendancy . |
| 9 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |