Example sentences of "[conj] it took some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 9 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 10 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 16 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 17 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 18 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 19 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 20 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |