Example sentences of "and it [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 91 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 92 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 93 | 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 . |
| 94 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 95 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 96 | 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 . |
| 97 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 98 | 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 . |
| 99 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 100 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 101 | 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 . |
| 102 | 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 . |
| 103 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 104 | 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 . |
| 105 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 106 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 107 | And then , what they were wanting to get across , Hang on then , the reason why it 's put there is that most people are , are now acutely conscious of , of having too much fat , too much milk , too much this , that and the other , and it , and it grabs some people and it 's a legitimate way in . |
| 108 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 109 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 110 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 111 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 112 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 113 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 114 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 115 | It was a protracted illness , accompanied by a high temperature , and it precipitated another bout of bronchitis . |
| 116 | That you can easily lose your concentration and go off to sleep and so it is in the truth , so we need to stay awake , stand firm for almighty , be vigilant and again in the scriptures we could look up half a dozen scriptures in the Christian Greek scriptures to show that we need to keep spiritually awake and it uses different terminology you 've heard me use some already , remember the one in verse Peter four , verse seven ? |
| 117 | ‘ When we do silage work , this engine is barely ticking over and it uses less fuel over the same acreage than a Ford 8210 , ’ 2 he says . |
| 118 | And it uses less power ? |
| 119 | A more critical account of such thinking was given in 1922 by Elie Halevy , the French historian , and it deserves extensive quotation . |
| 120 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |