Example sentences of "it took [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took Chris Day ( 1975 ) , writing eight years after Brian Way , boldly to affirm that , ‘ Drama … is not life ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 2 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 3 | It took Allan MacIntyre , Systems Development Manager , and his team about three months to create a programme , make trial runs , train operators and install a reliable system that went live on 1st November . |
| 4 | IT TOOK Vikram Seth three years to write his 1,349-page novel A Suitable Boy which is published throughout Britain today . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course , I want to win but remember it took Nigel Mansell five years to get his first victory . |
| 6 | It took General Schwarzkopf to restore order . |
| 7 | IT took Damien Denny only four and a half ruthlessly one sided minutes to strike a victory note at the Ulster Hall last night . |
| 8 | Remember that it took New Zealand four attempts before they finally beat Wales in Cardiff , in 1963 ( they won in Swansea in 1924 ) . |
| 9 | In the end , and to add to the injustices he had already suffered , Meehan was obliged to wait five years , which was the time it took Lord Hunter to complete and publish his report . |
| 10 | It took emergency services three hours to bring the fire under control , but manufacturing operations at the site were unaffected . |
| 11 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 12 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 13 | It took Jane Goodall years to accept the new picture . |
| 14 | Noah 's statement and the manner in which he delivered it took Arnold Peck aback , but he said haughtily , ‘ I 've never heard of you , sir . ’ |
| 15 | IT took Andy Walker of Bolton Wanderers all of 49 seconds to open the scoring of the season against Huddersfield . |
| 16 | It took Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17 to woo Green away from his idyllic semi-retirement with an invitation to contribute a song to their second volume of wild and wacky cover versions ‘ Music Of Quality And Distinction ’ , to be released later in the year . |
| 17 | It took Mr Gorbachev a year or two to perceive that he held a hopelessly weak hand — that the Soviet Union could not possibly match the enormous economic and technological resources Mr Reagan commanded and was prepared to employ , including the much-maligned Strategic Defence Initiative , which Mr Shultz strongly supported . |
| 18 | It took fire crews almost an hour to rescue Robert Stanley who fell fifteen feet into the vat at Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 19 | It took ambulance crews more than half an hour to free them . |
| 20 | It took Mel Fisher , an American obsessed with finding gold , 17 years to track down the wreck of the Atocha ; in the process , his son and daughter-in-law drowned . |
| 21 | It took defender Mike Galloway , with a powerful header from a Wdowczyk free kick in 59 minutes to put the proper reflection on the match . |
| 22 | IT took Kenny Dalglish six years to walk out on football management six years , three championships and two FA Cups . |
| 23 | It took girlfriend Alicia Plaistow several minutes to persuade him to climb out of the tub at his Florida holiday home to take a call from the Prime Minister 's office . |
| 24 | It took James Watt nearly two years to solve the problem with his invention of what is known as the ‘ Separate Condenser ’ in 1765 . |
| 25 | But it took R. A. Fisher and his colleagues , the founders of modern population genetics , to develop the full answer to Fleeming Jenkin in terms of Mendel 's theory of particle genetics . |
| 26 | It took Greg Farrel a few days to realise he was being vetted , both socially and professionally . |
| 27 | It took Baba Yaga a long time to struggle through the bushes , — but at last she did so and came after them as before , crying , " Hoo ! |
| 28 | It took Northern Ireland to fourth place in the group , still in with a mathematical chance of reaching the finals in USA ‘ 94 . |
| 29 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 30 | It took Tony Asmar a month to find out where he was . |