Example sentences of "took a little " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping .
2 It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer .
3 In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted .
4 News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin .
5 This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail .
6 It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find .
7 Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘
8 It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep .
9 It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers .
10 Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume .
11 It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years .
12 When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work .
13 After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement .
14 It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth .
15 Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet .
  Next page