Example sentences of "it took [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took ages before he twigged . |
| 2 | Because obviously you could do this by hand , you could do it by it took ages and could be very boring . |
| 3 | It took hours and it was not until the late afternoon that he began the final copy . |
| 4 | Sometimes it took hours and sometimes it did n't . |
| 5 | I am sorry it took place but I promise you it would be wisest to go home and forget it . ’ |
| 6 | It took place after the BMA leadership agreed to call off its damaging campaign against cash restraint on GPs ' drug budgets , a move regarded by Mr Clarke as a ‘ breakthrough ’ in his efforts to win wider support . |
| 7 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 8 | People were stopping outside the office where it took place and whispering to each other — someone had even placed a bouquet of flowers at the door that morning . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible . |
| 10 | It took fire and ambulance crews nearly an hour to cut Hilda McClanachan free from the wreckage of her Peugeot car . |
| 11 | It took years before the business really took off with the addition of more and more synthetics , starting with the discovery of nylon and followed up by the discovery of acrylics and polyester . |
| 12 | It took John and Jenny Emery much sweat and toil over a two month period to create a beautiful addition to their home — and a comfortable , well-controlled environment for their fish . |
| 13 | It took application and imagination to see the point of Eastern Europe , to see through the glacier to the contours underneath . |
| 14 | It was a test of skill to move silently among the trees with every sense alert , trying to spot one before it took fright and vanished . |
| 15 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 16 | It took Ron and myself two days to view it , and compulsive viewing most of it was . |
| 17 | Although it hardly seemed to notice the Hooligan affair , and its only immediate response was a front-page poem ‘ Hot Weather and Crime ’ which can only have been intended as a slap in the face for The Times leader on ‘ The Weather and the Streets ’ : The message was clear enough : if it took crime and violence to attract the attention of the mighty to the lives of the poor , then so be it . |