Example sentences of "took [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 2 | It took weeks for the other prisoners to get over that ; they would just come up and touch me . |
| 3 | It took seconds for the last bit to drop . |
| 4 | On occasion he took measures for the safety of the king 's subjects travelling through the forest . |
| 5 | She took portraits for The Sunday Times . |