Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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1 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
5 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
6 | It took one bounce and rolled right into the hole for birdie . |
7 | In 1872 , it took 10 hours and 12 relay stations to telegraph Australia . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Her imperial era was over , though it took another decade and two major anti-terrorist campaigns in Borneo and Aden to complete the transition . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |