Example sentences of "it took [pron] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 2 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 3 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 4 | It took me all day . |
| 5 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 6 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 7 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 8 | It took them all of the pre-lunch session to get the runs as Walsh and Bishop made life difficult , and Gooch fell just before the end ; but with three balls left before lunch |
| 9 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 10 | It took them all day to build the bridge — felling two of the tallest pines , stripping them bare , easing them with ropes down the steep slope to the river . |
| 11 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 12 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 13 | And it took you all your time to get them decent again with a wet rag . |
| 14 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 15 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 16 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 17 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |