Example sentences of "it took [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 2 | It took me all day . |
| 3 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 4 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 5 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 6 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 7 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 8 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 9 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 10 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 11 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 12 | Such was Felicity 's introduction to Overclyst , and it took her some time to recover from it . |
| 13 | It took her some time to get used to that but she got the knack of it in the end , and they spent hours together shooting at marks , or at rabbits on the Down or pigeons in the high trees at the forest edge . |
| 14 | It took her some time to adjust to her new billing as sister to the future Princess of Wales . |
| 15 | It took her some time to unfasten the stiff buttons . |
| 16 | It took her some time to get used to her face without them . |
| 17 | It took her some time to orientate . |
| 18 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 19 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 20 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 21 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 22 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |
| 23 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 24 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 25 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 26 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |
| 27 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 28 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 29 | It took him several minutes before he could talk . |
| 30 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |