Example sentences of "[coord] it took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 2 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 4 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 5 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 6 | During the following days Luke 's energy for work seemed boundless , and it took all of Merrill 's concentration to keep abreast of him . |
| 7 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 8 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 9 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 10 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 11 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 12 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 13 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 14 | Sussex smugglers traded in luxury goods , particularly wine and tea , essential to the maintenance of genteel civility and it took rare , almost obsessive , members of the landed hierarchy to take a consistently firm line against it . |
| 15 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 16 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 17 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 18 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 19 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 20 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 21 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 22 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 23 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 24 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 25 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 26 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 27 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 28 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 29 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 30 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |