Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] and it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 2 | There was a scientific hiatus and it took the Butt Report and the prodding of the C-in-C to trigger off an effort in this direction , GEE was an excellent start , but soon negated by jamming . |
| 3 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 4 | ‘ But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 5 | But I got my hand there in a reflex action and it took the worst of it . |
| 6 | Oh it 's a tremendous run and it took a very fine tackle by Chettle to stop him . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's why there were a couple of early hiccups and it took a while to settle in . |
| 8 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 9 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |
| 10 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 11 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 12 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 13 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 14 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 15 | Sussex smugglers traded in luxury goods , particularly wine and tea , essential to the maintenance of genteel civility and it took rare , almost obsessive , members of the landed hierarchy to take a consistently firm line against it . |