Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [pron] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |
| 2 | It took him several minutes before he could talk . |
| 3 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 4 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 5 | It took her several minutes to shake off the resulting stupefaction . |
| 6 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 8 | It took her several seconds to absorb the letter although it did not in any way fill the one sheet of paper . |
| 9 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |