Example sentences of "it took [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
| 2 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 3 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 4 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 5 | It took Corky all day to get this far and then he fainted in front of the C64 ! |
| 6 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |
| 7 | IT TOOK experts three days to restore a 300 year old building after Annie Lennox filmed her latest video there . |
| 8 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 9 | It took Britain four centuries rather than four generations to complete the cycle . |
| 10 | It took Simon three months to finish it , working just at weekends . |
| 11 | It took Stephanie some time to realise that she always refused what was offered at the time when it was offered , whether out of a curious notion of good manners or out of cussedness Stephanie was never wholly sure . |
| 12 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |
| 13 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 14 | Brave Gail Devers was suffering from Graves Disease but it took doctors two years to diagnose the crippling thyroid illness . |
| 15 | She was rushed to a hospital in Nottingham where it took doctors three hours to stabilise her condition . |
| 16 | It took Maggie ten minutes to get herself sorted out , then she and Susan were off , heading towards the kinema . |
| 17 | When the call finally came , it took Zen several moments to realize that the phone was n't ringing in Sue Ellen 's en suite boudoir but in the dingy pool-room at the end of the bar , where a pack of the local rogue males were playing throwing-billiards . |
| 18 | It took Richard ten months ; having set out filled with enthusiasm and burning ambition , the whole of the journey was fraught with disasters and setbacks . |
| 19 | It took Caillié eleven years of meticulous planning and a further year to reach the fabled city in 1828 , which turned out to be rather a disappointment to him after such a hazardous journey . |
| 20 | Gray noted , also , that Hel 's kingdom was banished so far from Asgard , the home of the gods , that it took ODIN nine days and nights to reach it . |
| 21 | It took Ted several seconds to realize the car was moving . |
| 22 | It took ScottishPower 35 minutes to restore supplies in part . |
| 23 | He spoke so casually that it took Bernice five seconds to realize the implications of what he had said and another five to fear it . |
| 24 | It took Quinn four hours , but no one disturbed him . |
| 25 | Thus , it took subjects less time to decide that the following sentences had a different meaning : |
| 26 | It took Hazel some trouble to learn to grip half a carrot in his mouth and carry it , like a dog , across the field and back to the warren . |
| 27 | It took police 13 years to bring him to justice . |
| 28 | It took police four days to trace the couple to Bridgnorth in Ontario . |
| 29 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 30 | It took Cuckney four years to overcome the financial crisis he encountered when he took over the Crown Agents in 1974 . |