Example sentences of "in the time [pers pn] took " in BNC.
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| 1 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 2 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 3 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 4 | We are told he could outpace a pack of hounds and catch a fleeing fox with ease , and run from Porth to Llantrisant in the time it took his mother to boil a kettle . |
| 5 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |
| 6 | At the height of the inflation , prices were rising by the hour so that the price of a meal in a restaurant could rise by as much as 25 per cent in the time it took to eat it ! |
| 7 | In the time it took you to write this letter you could have stripped the guitar down , sprayed the switch with contact cleaner and fitted new strings — you do change your strings occasionally , I assume ? |
| 8 | In the time it took me to turn my head , Ewen Mackay came upright , and a hand moved — incredibly — towards a pocket . |
| 9 | In the time it took to flicker across her vision , a card appeared in it , depicting a young knight . |
| 10 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 11 | He just had time for a quick coffee ( it was now or never ) , and in the time I took to refill the kettle and put coffee into two clean mugs , I 'd told him . |