Example sentences of "it took [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 2 | But perhaps the most surprising " own goal " scored by the Command was the length of time that it took to appreciate the value of Radio Countermeasures ( RCM ) . |
| 3 | In the time it took to negotiate the funds Rothmans came to an arrangement with Sedgefield . ’ |
| 4 | land up , up there , it took , it took put the bill in , it 's next , it 's next , we need this next two or three bloody month and I was on about this and I was on about that ev it 's possible this is what a lot of them going and getting , you do n't want it |
| 5 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Throughout the night , throughout the seven hours it took to cover the one hundred and twenty kilometres to Leipzig , they had not passed another vehicle until they joined the rush-hour traffic into the city . |
| 7 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 8 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 9 | If the answer is still no , then you really need to think hard about how long it took to produce the material and whether that expenditure of time was justified . |
| 10 | He said the atmosphere at each gathering had been one of calm , loving concern , and this would continue for as long as it took to get the children home . |
| 11 | ‘ Again , I lived with Mike for as long as it took to get the divorce and then I arranged the wedding . |
| 12 | Your time from the station now equals the time it took to get the 10° change of bearing . |
| 13 | Well theoretically I would wait as long as it took to wash the mess off the roof . |
| 14 | Being a single chip it replaces the 12 VLSI chips used in Sparcstation 2 and the 79 it took to build the original Sun 490s . |
| 15 | ‘ Nor the number of days it took to build the Palazzo Farnese ? ’ |
| 16 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 17 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 18 | It surprised me how long it took to make the change to HTV . |