Example sentences of "it took [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 2 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 3 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 4 | It took all the strength of Perdita 's frantically squeezing legs to stop her ducking out . |
| 5 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 6 | It took all the courage he had to thrust his head and shoulders into the mouth of that entrance , but he closed his eyes and twisted and turned and after a time tumbled out into a great stone chamber , lit with a soft light of its own that dimmed the glitter of his shining key . |
| 7 | It took half a mile to come to a halt after the crash and the driver was treated for shock . |
| 8 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 9 | Six of us , Mohammed , Aziz , Ali ( Aziz 's assistant ) , six locals and goods it took half an hour to unload half way , was a fairly modest load . |
| 10 | It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage . |
| 11 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 12 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |