Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took 11 firemen almost half an hour to bring the blaze under control and bingo players had to be evacuated as smoke seeped into the auditorium of the Mecca Social Club , next door . |
| 2 | When I rewrote it in Pascal , it took 11 seconds . ) |
| 3 | It took 13 years to bring Lashley to justice for the murder which he committed during 10 months of liberty while on parole from prison after a string of sex attacks in 1969 . |
| 4 | With a combination of every kind of scientific equipment and a psychological ‘ mind over matter ’ approach , he got players fit again in a fraction of the time it took other trainers . |
| 5 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |
| 6 | It took much will-power for the man to drag himself away , presently , on one of Dunbar 's best horses , but consoled and heartened by receiving the best kiss , on parting , that had yet come from Mariot Randolph . |
| 7 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 8 | It took four visits ( over a seven-week period ) to put an end to her phobia once and for all and to allow her to lead the happy , normal life she so desired . |
| 9 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |
| 10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 11 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 12 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 13 | It took four minutes to connect . |
| 14 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 15 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 16 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 17 | Oh , oh , it took four sides , James , after this . |
| 18 | It took four months to reach its decision which issued on 11th September 1992 . |
| 19 | It took four nomes to carry it . |
| 20 | It took four shampoos to , to get the bugger out ! |
| 21 | It took four years to develop a CAD system for shoe making . |
| 22 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 23 | In the recession of the early 1980s it took four years for the unemployment figures to drop . |
| 24 | When North Harbour were aiming for the top in New Zealand it took four years of struggle — getting beaten by the top provinces — before we managed to make our own mark . |
| 25 | Daytime sightings , prior to the late afternoon Mid-Day Scot were rare , and my notebooks indicate that it took four years of assiduous observation before I had ‘ spotted ’ 12 of the 13 locomotives built . |
| 26 | stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that . |
| 27 | It took four years of hard work and fundraising . |
| 28 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 29 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 30 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |