Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.

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1 It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’
2 It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme .
3 Above : It took six men to get the 15′ tank into the house .
4 In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable .
5 IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground .
6 It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’
7 It took three hours to get what was left of the body out .
8 ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life .
9 It took several attempts to get it right , but in the end I felt justifiably proud of my literary effort .
10 It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf .
11 It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign .
12 All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home .
13 Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ?
14 Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up .
15 It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 .
16 It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners .
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