Example sentences of "took us [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
2 | It took us a good while to get to the location . |
3 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
4 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
5 | And it took us a long long time to try and get back where we were . |
6 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
7 | It only took us a few seconds to realize the mistake but by then twenty-eight kids and three of the missionaries were either dead or dying . |
8 | They took us a few at a time and there were always prison officers with us . |
9 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
10 | Ministers had rejected the report but politically it took us the next two general elections to repair the damage . |