Example sentences of "it took [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a mere two minutes for them to open the scoring through Tracy Fry 's fine solo run , and by the time Helen Bray shot home from the spot with nine minutes remaining , Wimbledon had been reduced to chasing shadows . |
| 2 | Whizzing down the centre of Lake Rotoroa , as beautiful from water level as from the dizzy heights , it took a mere half hour to the park ranger 's jetty . |
| 3 | In fact it took a revolutionary medical technique for Ian to be able to play again , but only for the Palace Reserves , for the first team were , at that time at least , more than holding their own in Division One . |
| 4 | It took a healthy five mile walk for Elaine Ruxton and five colleagues from Douglas Reyburn to raise £200 for charity . |
| 5 | It took a daring three man space walk to rescue it . |
| 6 | And that 's why it took a long long time . |
| 7 | It took a great mental effort to move and go upstairs to change ; even then , she had to keep her mind blank , and it was only as she cooked the evening meal , every action mechanical , that she thought clearly again . |
| 8 | In a day of shocks her brain had become sluggardly , and it took a full thirty seconds for the import of his words to sink in . |
| 9 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 10 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 11 | It took a further five days for America 's ‘ quick-reaction force ’ of marines and helicopters to turn up . |
| 12 | It took a further five minutes before Blenkinsop made it to the phone , but to Amiss 's relief , he appeared to be both sober and reasonable : indeed he was giving a rather creditable imitation of a normal club secretary . |
| 13 | It took a further two decades before ‘ the elderly ’ were once more to experience the high profile that they had achieved in the debates of the 1940s and 1950s concerning their position and role in the economy . |
| 14 | It took a minor surgical operation to remove the pin and Miss T. suffered no ill-effects and was able to start her sexual life without inflicting grievous injury on her unsuspecting fiancé . |
| 15 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 16 | It took the usual twenty minutes , and , when he finally entered the conference hall , the motion in favour of Europe was being moved by Gerry Malone , a personable Scot who was now the MP for Winchester . |
| 17 | It took the left-wing blunt Liverpudlian Cathy Ashton , at BitC , to explain it to him . |
| 18 | It took the original 23 days to earn that much . |
| 19 | Financed to the tune of FFr5 million by the giant British chemical firm ICI , which also paid FFr2 million towards the Salle des Fetes exhibition and a special laser-lit dinner for 1,000 under the Louvre pyramid , restoration of ‘ The Marriage at Cana ’ took two and a half years — almost twice the time it took the thirty-four year-old , Verona-born artist and his brother Benedetto to paint Christ 's first miracle for the refectory of the Benedictine Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice in 1562–63 . |
| 20 | On the following day it took the Goodyear Trophy at 206 mph , flown by Hall , it took the next two races , again cruising round the course . |
| 21 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 22 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 23 | It took an historic 53 days to get the Bill through Committee , under the expert chairmanship of my hon. Friend the Member for Tatton ( Mr. Hamilton ) , who was present on the Front Bench today . |
| 24 | In one case , it took an additional 21 days before notification was deemed complete by the Commission . |
| 25 | When this information was required across the company it took an estimated two man days to compile . |