Example sentences of "[noun sg] it took [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 2 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 4 | Thus the more time it took to program a job , the more likely that programming and operating were differentiated . |
| 5 | Your time from the station now equals the time it took to get the 10° change of bearing . |
| 6 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 7 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |