Example sentences of "it took they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his wife tried and tried to have another one and they did , but it took them all those years . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load . |
| 6 | It took them half an hour to get the fire under control , and the building , two tractors and a number of farm implements were severely damaged . |
| 7 | It took them most of the day and , in the evening , they picked up their basketloads of red meat and carried them back to the security and acceptance of their own Untouchable community at the far end of the village . |
| 8 | When I first acquired a cube , Conway and Roger Penrose , from Oxford University , had already solved theirs and remarked that it took them some time to realise the power of conjugation . |
| 9 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 10 | It took them several years to prepare the area . |