Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [noun] to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four bouncers to get her off me . ’ |
| 2 | Above : It took six men to get the 15′ tank into the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | IT TOOK ten years to get this thundering , pyrotechnical ode to the mayhem and pointlessness of the Vietnam war off the ground . |
| 5 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 6 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 7 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took 2 years to get the money and membership needed to launch the campaign . |
| 10 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 11 | 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 ? |