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vb. (en-simple pasttake time)
Usage examples of "took time".
He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheel-lock pistol.
A body took time to build back the strength that being Healed took.
It took time to line up nearly six thousand soaked men, getting wetter by the minute.
Silviana saw anything that took time away from her novices and Accepted as needless interruption.
It took time to reestablish contact with eyes-and-ears scattered across the nations, and redirect their reports from the Tower to Salidar.
Establishing peaceful relations with this tribe took time, of course.
He took time to notice how beautiful she was, even when her face was pasty with fear.
It took time, years passed, but then Harold and Emmett had the time, for their longevity-treated bodies aged only minutes while those not so treated aged days and weeks.
All these disciplines, manufactures, and studies took time, of course, sandwiched in as they perforce were between the necessities of work, the Gamebird routines of endless meetings, conferences, evaluations, and the like, not to mention the time necessarily consumed by Emmett's torrid affair with Colonel Dr.
Hal, God bless him, took time that he didn't really have to spare to patiently explain to her just why it was necessary that I be so often gone for so long on the King's business, and for all the good it did anyone, he might as well've been talking to one of Bud Webster's aurochs bull-calves.
He took time to blow upon that slowmatch, but then, as he harbored scant faith in the ability of the ancient, ill-balanced and woefully inaccurate firelock to accomplish anything more of value than a loud noise to alert the camp, he reined up long enough to check by a vagrant beam of moonlight that the priming had not shaken from out the pan of his new wheellock pistol.