Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 35 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 36 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 37 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 38 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 39 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 40 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 41 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |
| 42 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 43 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 44 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 45 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 46 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 47 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 48 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 49 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 50 | but it took five years |
| 51 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 52 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 53 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 54 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 55 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 56 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 57 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 58 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 59 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 60 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |