Example sentences of "took him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bill Pilkington gets to work on the D&S crossword , which took him a mere six-and-a-half minutes . |
| 2 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 3 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it . |
| 5 | It took him a little while , but he got it fixed in the end , then held out his dummy hand for the gun . |
| 6 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 7 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 8 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 9 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 10 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |
| 11 | His first excursion from the house took him no farther than the garden . |
| 12 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 13 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 14 | The journey took him the better part of an hour , due to delays on the Tube , but now , as he walked from the station , he felt a curious mixture of elation and anxiety . |