Example sentences of "took a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 2 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 3 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 4 | News concerning the development in style took a little time to percolate through to the country ; a sculptor carving a resurrection scene on a 1707 headstone outside the south door of Uffington church , Oxfordshire , continues to depict the gable-lidded coffin . |
| 5 | This took a little time during which I pondered uneasily on the possibility , however remote , of having to recognize the existence of additional progeny , and all that it would entail . |
| 6 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 7 | Dorothy had a lot of shopping to do and my daughter took a little time off school to take us around . ‘ |
| 8 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 9 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 10 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 11 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 12 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 13 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 14 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 15 | Film superstar Alan Rickman took a little time to settle comfortably into the stage mantle of Shakespeare 's much-wronged prince , as if the echo of his own voice was vying with King Hamlet 's exhortations to do the deed , but this soon gives way to a gentle yet powerful Hamlet . |
| 16 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 17 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 18 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 19 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 20 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 21 | The unpacking of the car and the packing and preparing of sledges took a long time . |
| 22 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 23 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 24 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 25 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 26 | All the artistes were in England , but the staff were in New York , and to get money and to get certain things that we needed to do took a long time . |
| 27 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 28 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 29 | She was always rushing off to the Housing Applicant Office and the interviews took a long time . |
| 30 | The small block of semi-refined sugar , like cement , took a long time to dissolve . |