Example sentences of "it [vb past] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It cost him two marriages . |
| 2 | It cost him three minutes and he fell back to 14th overall , but drove magnificently to recover much of the deficit and climb back to eighth by the end of the day , sharing two stage victories with McRae . |
| 3 | Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do . |
| 4 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 5 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 6 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 7 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 8 | It took him thirteen years and he covered over a hundred thousand miles . |
| 9 | It took him five minutes to dress and leave the house . |
| 10 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 14 | It took him fifteen minutes and by the end his hand was sore from all the shaking . |
| 15 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 16 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 17 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 18 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 19 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 20 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 21 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 22 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 23 | It took him 20 minutes . |
| 24 | It took him 20 minutes to make it down safety and it 's an experience he 's not keen to repeat . |
| 25 | It took him three attempts to insert the key into the padlock . |
| 26 | It took him three years . |
| 27 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 28 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |