Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 2 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 3 | Even so , it took great nerve and daring to ride that wind for such a distance and it is a fitting tribute to the bravery of the balloon pioneers , yet it will be seen that those men and women who followed Sadler into the skies display , in their own way , no less daring than he . |
| 4 | With the lack of air , the smells , the unrestrained vomiting of a woman in the top bunk ( why had she ever thought they were lucky to get a bottom bunk ? ) it took real hunger and a strong stomach to face food . |
| 5 | It took eighteen years before the game moved officially to the appropriately proletarian environment of Australia . |
| 6 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 7 | It took long moments before Caroline calmed down enough to remember that she had not sprung the little trap she 'd set . |
| 8 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 9 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 10 | It took two years before I girded up my floppy disks and bought an Amstrad . |
| 11 | It took one bounce and rolled right into the hole for birdie . |
| 12 | In 1872 , it took 10 hours and 12 relay stations to telegraph Australia . |
| 13 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 14 | It took more courage than she knew she possessed to follow him . |
| 15 | It took more optimism than most people could summon to believe that man could renounce the time-honoured outlet of war utterly and at a stroke . |
| 16 | It took another year before the group felt confident enough to organize its first semi-open event — a disco . |
| 17 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
| 18 | It took another week before my photographs were developed and I saw the result of my airborne activities . |
| 19 | It took another week or so for the cat to start to ignore Dawn , and even longer for her to stop taking too much notice of him and actually watch TV . |
| 20 | And erm they 'd moved the kit , got the electricians to do it and it took , it took three fuses when they did it , I mean the extensions fused on that particular system , the data pairs fused |
| 21 | The police poured out to stop them , though it took three nights before the disturbances began to die down . |
| 22 | When replacing the case for example , it took several attempts before it was positioned correctly , and the power button worked properly again . |
| 23 | It took several minutes but they finally boarded the train , fought their way down the corridor and collapsed into the relative calm of a first-class carriage . |
| 24 | It took several minutes before they were ready to leave , and even then Mabel hovered in the doorway , saying plaintively , ‘ You wo n't be long , will you ? |
| 25 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 26 | It took several weeks before the new trader was able to work out roughly the quantities he needed each morning to satisfy his customers ' needs , and still longer to realise that those needs would vary from day to day |
| 27 | Edward , given a private room , discovered the problem first hand : it took twenty minutes before he raised the operator , and another ten before he was talking to Flight Lieutenant Benson . |
| 28 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |
| 29 | it took some time before it was explained to them that the French pronunciation of GPT sounded just like ‘ J'ai pété ’ which , as all you Europhiles no doubt know , means ‘ I have broken wind . ’ |
| 30 | It took some time before Willie allowed himself to relax in the water . |