Example sentences of "[coord] it took [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 2 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 3 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 4 | The note was a jumble of misspelt and blotched sentences , and it took her several minutes to decipher . |
| 5 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 6 | Lamb was on 99 and it took him an age next morning to reach the hundred , his first since 1984 . |
| 7 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 8 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's very sharp , and it took him a good while to accustom himself to the flowers , the boards , the judge 's car , or the judge 's box and all the rest of it . |
| 10 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 11 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 12 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 13 | The Adjudicator was pale , and it took him a moment to formulate a reply . |
| 14 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 15 | I told you I sat round there once and it took him an hour a whole hour , and I 'm , I 'm not exaggerating to fit or to put up half a sheet of wallpaper ! |
| 16 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 17 | And it took him about twenty five minutes . |
| 18 | They built it around a makeshift shrine , with offerings to the gods , both good and bad , and it took them all the following winter , this winter . |
| 19 | In the light of their two powerful flashlights visibility was all that could be wished for and it took them only two minutes to carry out their examination : unless one is looking for some obscure mechanical fault there is very little to look for in an engine-room . |
| 20 | They started off , like most other overseas enterprises , on a commercial basis by raising money from investors who stayed in England , and it took them about a dozen years or so to pay the investors off and become entirely free to run their own affairs . |
| 21 | But er to their credit er they got the contractors in and they commenced by putting up new pillars and new roofing structures and it took them about twelve months I think to actually build a new machine shop . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 24 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 27 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 28 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 29 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 30 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |