Example sentences of "it take his [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
2 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
3 | And one day he shave it off , it took his wife three hours to notice and it took his mum all day to notice |
4 | It took his crew 31 hours to change . |
5 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
6 | It took his score for the season to 20 and , ironically , he was on the receiving end of an unsuccessful objection . |
7 | ‘ I had an uncle who was dying of emphysema , ’ said Betty , ‘ and he used to implore people not to make him laugh because it took his breath away , and I could never understand what he could find to amuse him . ’ |
8 | For Griffiths-Jones the lag was the time it took his words to leave his mouth and hit the pages of the newspapers . |
9 | We are told he could outpace a pack of hounds and catch a fleeing fox with ease , and run from Porth to Llantrisant in the time it took his mother to boil a kettle . |
10 | It took his eyes a few seconds to get accustomed to the gloom then he darted inside and ducked down behind a rusty skip close to the door . |