Example sentences of "took him [det] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 2 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 3 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 4 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 5 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |