Example sentences of "it took i [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 2 | It took me a while to believe those three things utterly and another while to risk acting on the belief . |
| 3 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ It took me a while to find out he ( Rare Bear ) pulled out because I could n't hear that well on the radio . |
| 5 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 6 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 7 | Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running . |
| 8 | The window was completely boarded up , it took me a while to do that . |
| 9 | It took me a while to take in what was going on , of course . |
| 10 | It took me a while to work out that it was now Saturday . |
| 11 | Nothing major and it took me a minute or two before I could make out what it was . |
| 12 | It took me a couple of seconds to realize she was laughing . |
| 13 | It took me a devil of a time to find it I can tell you . |
| 14 | Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end . |
| 15 | Coming home it took me a bit longer cos it was all that delay at the hill . |
| 16 | It took me a moment to work out what was going on . |
| 17 | It took me a moment to realise he was talking to me . |
| 18 | It took me a month to pass the first aid , anti-gas and light rescue tests , and then I was allocated to the Rivermead Court post . |
| 19 | ‘ It took me a hell of a long time to get everyone to go , ’ Faye 's husband said explosively as he strode into the room . |
| 20 | It took me a week to get myself together again , and by the time you got back from leave I 'd left Johannesburg because there were n't any jobs for me there . |
| 21 | It took me a week to recover , and it was one of the best weeks of my life . |
| 22 | It took me a lot more years , and even more boyfriends , to cotton on , by which time most of the occupants of the back rows had been married to each other for years and were on their second spin dryer . |
| 23 | It took me the rest of the day to clean up . |
| 24 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 25 | It took me an hour to cross just one field , which had a hedge at least forty metres high . |
| 26 | It took me an hour to zig-zag down that pesky Alp , and it will be at least another 17 years before I go up a mountain for anything other than rösti or a yodel . |
| 27 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 28 | Erm it took me an hour and a quarter . |
| 29 | You want me to , it took me , it took me an hour and it 'll finish it . |