Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it enabled clueless people to quote ‘ soul ’ , then it allowed intelligent people to get away with expressing fake emotions . |
| 2 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 3 | It took many months to get the Staff to evaluate the possibilities of such a scheme . |
| 4 | Above : It took six men to get the 15′ tank into the house . |
| 5 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 6 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 7 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 8 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 9 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 10 | It took several attempts to get it right , but in the end I felt justifiably proud of my literary effort . |
| 11 | It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf . |
| 12 | It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign . |
| 13 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 14 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 15 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 16 | It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners . |