Example sentences of "[verb] it took " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 2 | Although the affair was soon forgotten it took a long time for Phil to live down that one ! |
| 3 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 4 | But where this occurred it took the form of state control and the resulting technologies and forms of industrialisation differed little from their capitalist counterparts . |
| 5 | The techs froze with shock for the two heartbeats it took Mitchell to turn the old man 's gun on them . |
| 6 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 7 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 8 | Twenty-six-year-old Yasmin says it took about a year and a great deal of hard work to get her figure back into shape , so she knows she 'll have a hard task in front of her after the birth of her second baby . |
| 9 | And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre . |
| 10 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 11 | This oarsman says it took a bite out of his blade . |
| 12 | The Centre says it took into account Percy 's age , stength and fitness . |
| 13 | David is concerned at the length of time he says it took for an ambulance to arrive . |
| 14 | With one huff it took in things about me I 'll never know . |
| 15 | As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch . |
| 16 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 17 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 18 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 19 | Merely cleaning it took from December 1989 to June 1990 . |
| 20 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 21 | But as it is as you say you know it took five minutes before it all happened in I find this very do n't you ? |
| 22 | How that consciousness should be studied , what forms it took , how it expressed itself , are questions which those who study the subject , at whatever period , must be ready to answer . |
| 23 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , I want to win but remember it took Nigel Mansell five years to get his first victory . |
| 25 | One woman , remarking on ‘ how wonderful it was , with what faith the Führer spoke ’ , was reported as saying it took just such a speech to show ‘ how faint-hearted one had become through the routine of everyday life ’ , and that she could now look to the future with confidence again . |
| 26 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 27 | I suppose it took that long to get there did it ? |
| 28 | Noah 's statement and the manner in which he delivered it took Arnold Peck aback , but he said haughtily , ‘ I 've never heard of you , sir . ’ |
| 29 | Lipcon understands long-term as being two or three years which is what he figures it took the Mac to amass the necessary apps and catch on . |
| 30 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |