Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 10 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 11 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 12 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 13 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |