Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 6 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids . |
| 12 | It reached an all time high of twenty five percent in about nineteen seventy five and it 's gone down since . |