Example sentences of "it take her [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mind was still seething when she reached Maggie 's ; it took her two attempts to key the code into the computer-lock right-handed . |
| 2 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 3 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 4 | It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again . |
| 5 | Bubbles is actually very clever ; it took her five minutes to learn how to leg yield . |
| 6 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 7 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 8 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 9 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 10 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 11 | It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper . |
| 12 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 13 | It took her three months to gain the confidence to walk through a door , even if the other two dogs walked out first . |