Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] take a " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 2 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 3 | It must have taken a long time . |
| 4 | It must have taken a couple of hours or more to reach the machan , a platform raised on poles . |
| 5 | So it must have taken a long while ? |
| 6 | ‘ It must have taken a lot of practice to become so fluent , ’ she called down the hatch to let him know she was back . |
| 7 | It must have taken a full five seconds for him to crumple Des , but he needs another three to get moving , and by then I 'm at his side . |
| 8 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 9 | BUDDY REYNOLDS ( Sound Off ) , October 27 ) it must have taken a real strike of genius to suggest that The Levellers ' manager bar their so called ‘ crusties ’ from their gigs . |
| 10 | cos it 'd have to take a long time . |
| 11 | They could stay in the old lodge ; it would save taking a tent . |
| 12 | But it would have taken a lot more than the doctor 's understandable caution to dispel the general euphoria . |
| 13 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |
| 14 | It would have taken a bold investor to put 40% of a stock portfolio in the Tokyo market in the mid-1980s , even though that was what Japan 's share of global stockmarket capitalisation had become . |
| 15 | It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place . |
| 16 | This is a short-cut walkers are not supposed to take , to prevent erosion , but it would have taken a man with a Rotweiler and a machine-gun to stop me , so desperate was I to get back to the car and home . |
| 17 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 18 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 19 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 20 | It would have taken a match of some note to have lifted this last weekend of the Championship out of the also-ran trough . |
| 21 | It would have taken a minute or so to operate the computer . |
| 22 | It would have taken a considerable amount of time for any Government taking over their shambolic performance to improve the quality of just about everything in the environment , as we have been doing . |
| 23 | He said it would have taken a fraction of a section to pull the duvet off . |
| 24 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 25 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 26 | Four years ago it would have taken a whole day to set up a run of car doors at the plant . |
| 27 | Perhaps , if left for long enough girls may kill one another also , but it would have taken a far longer time to happen . |
| 28 | Well , it would have taken a lot of investment . |
| 29 | And Mr Birrell claims that because the Halifax is mutual , it can afford to take a longer-term view of its strategic options . |