Example sentences of "took [pron] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had learnt to ride , the trick of balancing took me quite a while , that bike , over the next four years gave me enormous pleasure . |
| 2 | It took me quite a while to rebuild my confidence . |
| 3 | To tell the truth , it took me quite a while to realize that the pitiable chirruping I heard all about me was , in fact , human speech . |
| 4 | It took me quite a while to convince him that my being with you was because I was trying to persuade you to — ’ |
| 5 | It took me quite a while to cope with the shock . ’ |
| 6 | Well , erm , of course it took them quite a while that the people |
| 7 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 8 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 9 | The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held . |
| 10 | A divorced friend of mine said that it took her about a year to reach the breakthrough . |
| 11 | The opening Largo of the Concerto No. 1 in D major is a good example of these qualities in Corelli 's style yet I felt that Banchini took it just a shade too slow for its own good . |
| 12 | It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes . |
| 13 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 14 | It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle . |
| 15 | I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home ! |
| 16 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |