Example sentences of "and it took [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 2 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 3 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 4 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 5 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 6 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 7 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 8 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 9 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 10 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 11 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 12 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 13 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
| 14 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 15 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 16 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
| 17 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 18 | And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag . |