Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 2 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 3 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 4 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 5 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 6 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 7 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 8 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 9 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 10 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 11 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 12 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 13 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 14 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 15 | Such was the official secrecy , or confusion , that it took several weeks to confirm that no RCM boys were among the casualties . |
| 16 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 17 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 25 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 26 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 27 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 30 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |