Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 2 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 3 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 4 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 5 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 6 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 7 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 8 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 9 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 10 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 11 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 12 | It took four men to heave the huge Victorian cast-iron bath up the stairs . |
| 13 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 14 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 15 | It took nineteen years to complete what was not only a remarkable feat of engineering but also an outstanding example of Francisco Franco 's single-minded pursuit of self-aggrandizement and immortality . |
| 16 | The defendant garage was liable in damages because it took eight weeks to repair a motor vehicle when a normally competent garage would have taken about five weeks . |
| 17 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 18 | It took many visits to reach our self-set target of non-respondents : thirty primary and thirty secondary teachers willing to discuss the Oxfordshire scheme and to go through the questionnaire orally with us . |
| 19 | The development of coloured carp appealed to the oriental penchant for patience and order , for it took many generations to produce recognisable bloodlines of Kohaku , Sanke or Showa . |
| 20 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 21 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 22 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 23 | It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts . |
| 24 | It took 18,000 man-hours to repair a complete Whitley . |
| 25 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 26 | It took eighteen years to build , every piece of stone used in its construction coming from the quarries in Apedale ( the valley of the Norseman Appi ) . |
| 27 | It took six hours to make . |
| 28 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 29 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 30 | So if it took six months to start each scheme up |