Example sentences of "only took a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only took a wee bit , leave it there and I 'll eat it at the end of the day . |
| 2 | But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change . |
| 3 | Yeah cos they only took a hundred and something , but he said if I take about a hundred and something pound a day |
| 4 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 5 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 6 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 7 | The ambulance only took a few minutes , but it seemed like hours . |
| 8 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 9 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 10 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |