Example sentences of "it took [noun] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took D'Arcy a few seconds to connect the familiar face in the unfamiliar surroundings . |
| 2 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 3 | It took Marie a few seconds to realize who Gary was : nobody , not even the teachers at school , called Gazzer by his real name . |
| 4 | It took Alistair a little while to explain who he was . |
| 5 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 6 | It took people a long time to understand that Education had a much broader view on Channel 4 , and that many of the things that would elsewhere have been informational , or features or factual , would actually find a home in my lot , rather than in Liz 's . |
| 7 | It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red , glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth . |
| 8 | It took White the best part of this season to repair the psychological damage , but are we to believe him when he claims that he will win the World Championship unless he gets ‘ a terrible illness or someone plays like God ’ ? |