Example sentences of "it took [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 2 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 3 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 5 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 6 | It took many months during which they lost potential earnings ; afterwards they were still critical of the union . |
| 7 | It took many months of research on the part of Vanessa Forbes to track down the 21 of Marjorie Worgan 's original class members ( some now grannies ) who managed to attend the surprise lunch she organised for Marjorie 's 80th birthday . |
| 8 | Even so , it took many years for Ali to ascend to a pre-eminent light in the national consciousness . |
| 9 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 10 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 11 | It took many years for linguists and sociolinguists to devise ways of getting the best of both worlds . |
| 12 | It took many years for scientists studying malaria to realise it was the mosquito that was important , not the messenger from the martians . |
| 13 | but even , it took all day to er , to get a |
| 14 | It took that length of time for The Times to reach Carewscourt from London , where it was posted every morning . |
| 15 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 16 | The courthouse windows were open but the radiators below them were hot ; it took several hours for any changes in setting to make themselves felt through the massive heating system , and it was impossible to keep up with the irrational temperament of the month . |
| 17 | It took several layers of slightly thinned fold acrylic paint to get the effect I wanted , then , as the final touch , I worked over the parts I have previously painted red , now visible only as a dull tonal value within the fold , using well thinned films of the different pearlescent colours . |
| 18 | It took several minutes for Joseph to recover his composure and only then was he able to see by the light of the fires that the rear of the communal hut was divided up into tiny stall-like compartments for the pholy 's wives and daughters . |
| 19 | It took several moments for him to orientate himself and wipe the sleep from his eyes . |
| 20 | It took several pulls of the cord before it caught . |
| 21 | Although she was astute enough to understand this on a logical basis , it took several sessions of counselling and therapy to convince Myra 's subconscious mind that she was in no way to blame and that she had behaved naturally and in total innocence . |
| 22 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 23 | It took several miles on the bus and a lot of questions still to be answered outside his front door before he invited me in to meet his mother . |
| 24 | Its honours for impresarios and maverick businessmen — what The Times called examples of ‘ unrepentant Darwinism , of the business survival of the fittest and of nature red in tooth and claw ’ — so appalled them and the Palace that it took several weeks for approval to be obtained . |
| 25 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 26 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 27 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 28 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 29 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |
| 30 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |