Example sentences of "took us [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 2 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 3 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 4 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 5 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 6 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 7 | This took us some time to do but it was a lot of fun . |
| 8 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 9 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |