Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] it take " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 2 | The music they played gradually grew familiar to Alice ; it was music for the violin , the famous Violin Concerto , and it sounded very strange on the flute and guitar , so strange that it took her a moment or two to recognize it . |
| 3 | The transition was so abrupt that it took her by surprise . |
| 4 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 5 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 6 | They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being . |
| 7 | The speed of her car was still so great that it took Chesarynth a while to realize the signs were n't complete . |
| 8 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 9 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 10 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 11 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 12 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 13 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 14 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |