Example sentences of "it take he two " in BNC.

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1 It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village .
2 It took him two and a half days to reach Edinburgh .
3 Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France .
4 It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour .
5 In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future .
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