Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a strange reflection on the lack of modernity in British politics that it took a pillar of the old establishment to tell them they ca n't have both . |
| 2 | Balor had two eyes , one being invested with so much evil power that it took four men to lift the eye-lid . |
| 3 | Let us assume that in the split second that it took our sender to walk into the room and to recognise another person , a decision was made to smile . |
| 4 | Alex Carlile , Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales said : ‘ I hope the Government will take the same view of damage by flood to Welsh homes that it took to damage to Her Majesty 's home . ’ |
| 5 | The family and marriage , in the particular form that it took in Victorian times , was , for the great majority of Engels 's contemporaries a sacred , eternal , and unchallengeable institution . |