Example sentences of "[that] it [vb past] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Philips Report was so concerned about the increasing proportion of elderly people in the population that it thought some rise in the minimum pension-age inevitable . |
| 5 | He appeared to shrug off the news but there is no question that it interjected some kind of identity crisis into his life . |
| 6 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 7 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |