Example sentences of "but it took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 2 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 3 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have taken nine months to do them by hand , but it took six months this way . |
| 5 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 6 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
| 7 | But it took many years for the ordinary people of the area to benefit from tourism in any worthwhile economic sense . |
| 8 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
| 9 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 10 | A wizened butler opened the door to Topaz , but it took five minutes of heated argument before she was allowed to step over the threshold of Stone Towers . |
| 11 | but it took five years |
| 12 | As early as 1872 , he was proposing the formation of a national body for deaf people , but it took long and persistent efforts on his part before the National Deaf and Dumb Society was founded in 1879 . |
| 13 | But it took some getting at , the core of the physical jungle , the dark and deepest recess of organic shame . |
| 14 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 15 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 16 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 17 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 18 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 19 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 20 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 21 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 22 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 23 | The incident last weekend happened just a few hundred yards from Bishop Auckland ambulance station , but it took 25 minutes for a vehicle to arrive from Durham City 12 miles away . |
| 24 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 25 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 26 | Charlemagne was lucky in that his only brother , four years younger than himself , died in 771 after a short period of increasingly fraught joint-rule ; but it took more than luck to remove that brother 's sons — they , and their mother , disappeared when their uncle defeated and imprisoned their protector , the Lombard king . |
| 27 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 28 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 29 | They were mostly wrong , but it took several years to find out . |