Example sentences of "it took a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |
| 32 | It took a long helicopter ride to Norway to treat him , and he can no longer dive or even walk without a limp . |
| 33 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 34 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 35 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 36 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 37 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 38 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 39 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 40 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 41 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 42 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 43 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 44 | It took a long time for us to reach an understanding . |
| 45 | Despite hospital treatment , it took a long time for Sheila to recover . |
| 46 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 47 | ‘ It took a long time for me to get my Gold Award because some of the tasks were very difficult , ’ says Fiona of the demanding project that included months of community service , braving the elements on an exploratory camping trip and writing a long and detailed historical thesis ! |
| 48 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 49 | ‘ It took a long time for all this to evolve . |
| 50 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 51 | ‘ It took a long time for me to come to terms with the whole mistletoe thing . |
| 52 | It took a long time , the waiting . ’ |
| 53 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 54 | It took a long time , but she finally got the drunken figure out of the door and closed it firmly behind him . |
| 55 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 56 | It took a long time for the penny to drop with me about why I was so apparently popular in men 's organizations in the aftermath of so many women deciding to work separately . |
| 57 | It took a long time . |
| 58 | It took a long time to adjust after discovering the baby was a girl . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 60 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |