Example sentences of "it [verb] three [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It costs three pounds to join for two years , or five pounds to join for five years . |
| 2 | It takes three generations to make a gentleman , they say ; but the sons and daughters of impoverished immigrants into London in Victorian times were only one remove from their humble roots elsewhere — every reason , therefore , to collect around themselves the trappings of grandeur . |
| 3 | It takes three pages to demolish Philip . |
| 4 | If this book has a significant weakness , it is simply that it takes three chapters to get into its stride . |
| 5 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 6 | It takes three months to commit even a simple one to memory , and then once you 've used it , pouf ! it 's gone . |
| 7 | It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley . |
| 8 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 9 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 10 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 11 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 12 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 13 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 14 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 15 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 16 | Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents . |
| 17 | It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey . |
| 18 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | It took three years to build , starting in 1785 . |
| 20 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |