Example sentences of "but it took [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 2 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 3 | But it took some getting at , the core of the physical jungle , the dark and deepest recess of organic shame . |
| 4 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 5 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 6 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 7 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 8 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 9 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 10 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 11 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 12 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 13 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 14 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 15 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 16 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |