Example sentences of "[noun] [that] took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop . |
| 2 | From a traditional Labour background , my mother rejected the politics of solidarity and communality , always voted Conservative , for the left could not embody her desire for things to be really fair , for a full skirt that took twenty yards of cloth , for a half-timbered cottage in the country , for the prince who did not come . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that it would not be the first inspector 's decision that took some time to see the light of day once it had been referred to a Department . |
| 4 | The work that took 18th century London by storm with its rich mixture of ballads and brigands , true love and treachery . |
| 5 | And so — in my case very reluctantly , in a slow process of decision-making that took two years — we have taken the road to Budapest . |
| 6 | He managed this with the help of a flannel , some scented soap from England which he kept for special occasions and a kettleful of hot water that took five minutes to boil on the single electric ring that served as a cooker and , in winter , as a heater . |
| 7 | There 's a , the person that took that words was your Moira |
| 8 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 9 | In Egypt that took five weeks to get ; all for five days shooting . ’ |
| 10 | Unveiled : the jigsaw that took ten years |
| 11 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 12 | For a journey that took three days . |
| 13 | Whether because people really did not know how to interpret the revolution in England or because they wanted fairly complete independence and correctly suspected that William was going to exercise much the same overall powers as Charles and James had done , there was a revolt in New York that took some months to suppress and the colonists of Massachusetts at the beginning of the 1690s were no more reconciled to English rule than in the past . |
| 14 | That 's where Sonic Youth got a lot of ideas from , because their guitarist Lee Renaldo actually used to play with Glenn Branca and in a way it 's Sonic Youth that took that drone style into pop music . ’ |
| 15 | In the 1870s this was a mind-boggling task that took 300 clerks six weeks to complete . |
| 16 | The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it . |
| 17 | ‘ Just taking pictures ’ was supported by a philosophical edifice that took two bottles of beer to explain and provided lots of opportunity for amused , patronising glances . |