Example sentences of "took [pron] two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 2 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 3 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 4 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 5 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 6 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 7 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 8 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 9 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 10 | but Portsmouth took , took them two matches , supposed to do it extra time like . |
| 11 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 12 | It took them two days before they reached human habitation . |
| 13 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 14 | I thanked him and hung up , and with considerable contentment took my two bags in a taxi to Union Station . |
| 15 | My mother did n't feel like being left all that time , so she took my two sisters and me to visit her school friend Beryl , who was married to the poet Robert Graves . |
| 16 | Honours were even in an error-filled first 40 minutes but Leeds took their two chances to edge ahead 8–6 . |
| 17 | Her mind was still seething when she reached Maggie 's ; it took her two attempts to key the code into the computer-lock right-handed . |
| 18 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 19 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 20 | It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again . |
| 21 | In the face of foreign invasion , James panicked and fled the country in December 1688 ( though it took him two attempts before he finally escaped to France ) , and in February 1689 a specially convened Convention Parliament established William and Mary as joint King and Queen and debarred all Catholics from the succession in the future . |
| 22 | took him two reactions , |
| 23 | It took him two days , making three journeys a day — down the slippery path through the forest , then a mile along the river-bank , across the permanent bridge and up through the fields to the village . |
| 24 | In spite of these disadvantages , Macmillan 's next exploit , in June 1842 , was to ride the seventy miles into Glasgow , a trip which took him two days and resulted in his being fined the sum of five shillings for causing a slight injury to a small girl who ran across his path . |
| 25 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 26 | It took him two weeks to die and for the second of those we spoke together every night by telephone , often for more than an hour . |
| 27 | The living room scheme — inspired by the 1986 design for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong — is the most complex and took him two months to complete . |
| 28 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 29 | A SCOTS father who took his two sons for a forest walk and sparked a huge rescue operation came under fire yesterday . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sure I would , ’ he said , and she felt almost overcome by a tide of relief because it was all right , at last he understood … and then he took his two hands away from hers on the table , and his smile and his entire attitude dropped away like a paper mask . |