Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 2 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 5 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 6 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 7 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 8 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 9 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 10 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was a girl it took twelve yards of cloth just to make an underskirt for a ball gown . |
| 12 | It took twelve months from the Albert Hall speech in October 1934 until anti-semitism was used as the main plank of a political campaign . |
| 13 | It took tremendous courage for Roebuck to fight back from his crippling injury , but there is a further chapter to the story . |
| 14 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 15 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 16 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 17 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 18 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 19 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 20 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 21 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 22 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 23 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 24 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 25 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 26 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 27 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 28 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 29 | It took radical change in teaching method , requiring greater use of an organized collection of resource materials , to point up the need for a greater degree of professionalism and for larger and more ambitious organizations . |
| 30 | It took professional journals like Building News and foreign observers like Muthesius to recognize Nonconformity 's achievements . |