Example sentences of "it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took AI several months to compile details of the killings , but prisoners released in March 1991 provided information and themselves bore scars from torture . |
| 2 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 3 | I enjoyed doing this because it took people by surprise . |
| 4 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 5 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 6 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 7 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 8 | It took many of them an awful long time even to introduce themselves . |
| 9 | It took six weeks for the first amount of money to arrive . |
| 10 | That 's all it took . ’ |
| 11 | All it took was this fifty-pound note and people not giving me another chance … ’ |
| 12 | But it took all of a week 's ration of time to restore the plot to its pre-holiday weed-free state . |
| 13 | It took a bit of getting used to . |
| 14 | No problem to Lucy , who kept smiling through , witty and charming , zipping through three courses of creative cuisine into a smart frock and an atomised squirt of Coty L'Amant in the time it took Martin and ‘ the gang ’ to get home . |
| 15 | It took more and more gin and wine to shut the words up , pick out the barbs . |
| 16 | Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze . |
| 17 | ‘ Father has — Father has — oh , he is very ill , it took him yesterday . ’ |
| 18 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 19 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 20 | It took courage to do this as I was fearful the ants might swarm over the spade and run all the way up the handle to my hands . |
| 21 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 22 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 23 | ‘ In European countries , it took the working class years and years before they fully realized the fact that they formed a distinct and , under existing conditions , a permanent class of modern society ; and it took years again until this class-consciousness led them to form themselves into a distinct political party , independent of , and opposed to , all the old political parties formed by the various sections of the ruling classes . |
| 24 | ‘ It took us quite a while to persuade other people just how much tennis in general could benefit , especially in those countries where Government grants are dependent on Olympic membership , if tennis was once again a member of the Olympic family . |
| 25 | It took him about 150 hours to complete , and won him a City and Guilds senior award for excellence . |
| 26 | If anyone spoke , it was usually only to voice condemnation of British Rail for the time it took to get served . |
| 27 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 28 | In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over . |
| 29 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
| 30 | It took place after the BMA leadership agreed to call off its damaging campaign against cash restraint on GPs ' drug budgets , a move regarded by Mr Clarke as a ‘ breakthrough ’ in his efforts to win wider support . |