Example sentences of "it took [pers pn] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 2 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 3 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 4 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 5 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 6 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 7 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 8 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 9 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 10 | Once they 'd moved in , it took them three years just to make the necessary structural changes , but with a neglected 350-year-old house that was to be expected . |
| 11 | It took them three afternoons . |
| 12 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
| 13 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
| 14 | It took him three attempts to insert the key into the padlock . |
| 15 | It took him three years . |
| 16 | It took him three years before prices were increased adequately to meet the needs of the business . |
| 17 | It took him three quarters of an hour to get us there . |
| 18 | Capitol Plastics of Bowling Green , Ohio , reckons that it took it three years , $200,000 of investment and meetings wit several hundred people to win its first order ( worth a little over $200 ) from Honda 's plant in Marysville , Ohio . |
| 19 | I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back . |
| 20 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |