Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] took some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There was a big municipal clock outside the town-hall , and we took some photographs underneath it . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
6 | She would have no trouble catching him on paper , but she took some photographs just to make sure . |
7 | But she took some coffee and began to drink . |
8 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
9 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
15 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
16 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |