Example sentences of "and it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the king had to send his justices to the clergy 's deliberations and threatened to take the names of opposers , and it took all Winchelsey 's good will and best arts to elicit from them a grant of one tenth for the current year and another , should it be necessary , in the following year . |
| 3 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 4 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 5 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 6 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 7 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 8 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 9 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 10 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 11 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 12 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 13 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 18 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 19 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 20 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 21 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 22 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 23 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |