Example sentences of "it [adv] take the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 2 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 3 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 4 | because it just takes the sun off the window . |
| 5 | It just takes the surface off . |
| 6 | It just it just takes the edge off it so it is a good tip actually it 's just if you 've time beforehand is just even as you were saying producing a thought pattern like this even just doing the first level just in pencil . |
| 7 | It normally took the form of shearing , combining , baling , muck spreading , etc . |
| 8 | It soon took the lead staying close for an hour , and left shortly before we saw Lake Angelus . |
| 9 | It largely took the form of financial incentives to companies to move to , or expand within , certain parts of the country . |
| 10 | When they do , it usually takes the form of a balanitis , inflammation of the glans penis under the foreskin . |
| 11 | It usually takes the form of a huge , shaggy white dog , about the size of a bull-calf , which will pursue anyone it sees . |
| 12 | It also takes the Treasury to task over its intention to create a new offence which will be committed by any person acting in the course of any trade , business or profession who does not report his money laundering suspicions . |
| 13 | This is a useful question because it also takes the class towards an understanding that drama is often far more enjoyable if the problems that are raised are not easily solved . |
| 14 | It also takes the pressure off the local forest or other local natural resources which do not have to be destroyed for short-term gains . |
| 15 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 16 | I know a lot of people who study it carefully take the view if it closed down tomorrow nobody would notice apart from the taxi drivers in Strasbourg . |
| 17 | Coming from the Health Department , who should know something about how difficult it is to align health and age , it really takes the biscuit . |
| 18 | John Cole It really takes the biscuit How much longer can we tolerate mass starvation ? |
| 19 | John Cole 's column of 24 April ( ‘ It really takes the biscuit ’ ) , which counterposed reports of famine ( in Sudan , again , and Zimbabwe ) with the domestic political ‘ babble ’ over ‘ Scottish devolution , poll tax , or the privatisation of British Rail ’ , brought similar complaints . |
| 20 | There , it often takes the form of a question . |
| 21 | The great diversity of industrial conflict means that it often takes the form of a tactical response . |
| 22 | It often takes the form of a matrix representing the business on two axes , ‘ market attractiveness ’ and ‘ business strength ’ . |
| 23 | It then took the rest of the century to get my leather jacket on over the plaster . |
| 24 | There it chiefly took the form of a simple geographical advance of agriculture into the interior . |
| 25 | But it actually takes the earth 365.242199 days to complete this journey . |
| 26 | If a partner never could see the point of going to all those meetings , it may not have stopped you but it certainly took the joy out of attending . |
| 27 | It therefore takes the edge off the objection and creates a climate of agreement rather than conflict . |
| 28 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |