Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 2 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 3 | Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do . |
| 4 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 5 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 6 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 7 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 8 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 9 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 10 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 11 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 12 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 13 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 14 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 15 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 16 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 17 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 18 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |
| 19 | Fred Rodgers said it took him 30 minutes to travel half-a-mile this morning . |
| 20 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 21 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 22 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 23 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |
| 24 | It took him three attempts to insert the key into the padlock . |
| 25 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 26 | It took him twenty minutes to get down to the town centre and turn into the street of tatty terraced houses behind the bus station were Nails lived . |
| 27 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 28 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 29 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 30 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |