Example sentences of "it took [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |
| 2 | It took a few minutes for me to balance the load . |
| 3 | It took a few minutes before his eyes had adjusted to semi-darkness and the great sweep of the headland became visible , its shapes and forms mysteriously altered under the high stars . |
| 4 | It took a few minutes in the kitchen to make the mug of strong chicory coffee to which he added a liberal lacing of brandy . |
| 5 | It took a few minutes for Curtis and Adrian to realise their baby had disappeared . |
| 6 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 7 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 8 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 9 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 10 | In a cool sheltered position , with a damp-proof membrane , it took a few days to harden enough to build on . |
| 11 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 12 | Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it . |
| 13 | It took a few seconds after he regained consciousness to realize that he was blindfolded . |
| 14 | It took a few seconds before she realised that he had pulled himself away from her . |
| 15 | It took a few bumps on the head for him to get used to the low ceiling and the prominent oak beams , but now they do n't bother him at all . |
| 16 | It took a few months to destroy this illusion . |
| 17 | ‘ It took a few years before one saw that the contact with , and knowledge of , industry , the dialogue , needed to be restored . ’ |
| 18 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 19 | The Shorthorn/Highland first cross has always been popular but it took the concerted efforts of the three Cadzow brothers on an island off the west coast of Scotland to consolidate the virtues of the cross and turn it into a genuine breed , the Luing , named after the island of its origin . |
| 20 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 21 | It took the Croatian archaeologists almost a year to obtain permission to get into the Barbariga military base . |
| 22 | It took the combined efforts of the Bank of England intervening to buy unwanted sterling , the lowest inflation rate since 1967 ( and the lowest underlying rate since July 1958 ) , and a firm promise by the Chancellor not to play fast and loose with interest rates to reassure the markets . |
| 23 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |