Example sentences of "it took [pers pn] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 2 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 3 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 4 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 5 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 6 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 8 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 9 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 10 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 11 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 12 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 13 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 14 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 15 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |