Example sentences of "took him [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took him all day to find addresses and write the envelopes , as there are so many agony aunts in national newspapers , teenage and women 's magazines . |
| 2 | Well he c it took him all morning , how long would it have taken me ? |
| 3 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 4 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 5 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |
| 6 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 7 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 8 | Mum well Susan took him this morning so he was to have it done early at eight |
| 9 | ‘ When I took him this note , he cried , ‘ All my chemicals are pure , and you can tell your master so ! ’ , and he threw the note back at me . ’ |
| 10 | It took him several minutes before he could talk . |
| 11 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |