Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took 11 firemen almost half an hour to bring the blaze under control and bingo players had to be evacuated as smoke seeped into the auditorium of the Mecca Social Club , next door . |
| 2 | But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water . |
| 3 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 4 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 5 | It took two people quite a time to take the big sheets down one by one , flap and fold them , holding the corners tight . |
| 6 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 7 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 8 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 9 | It took considerable time here for the work of the CAB to be understood but its place is now firmly established . |
| 10 | These figures are hardly surprising — it took most respondents up to six weeks to find a replacement . |
| 11 | It took another step down . |
| 12 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 13 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |