Example sentences of "[vb past] it take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initiative helped it to take on new staff , all previously unemployed , and train them in skills ranging from computing to business administration . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , the game was very close and as half time approached it took a piece of individual brilliance to put St Albans ahead . |
| 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 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 6 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 7 | The Minister will know of one trainer , Astra Training Services , because he paid it to take the skill centres away . |
| 8 | The marriage which followed it took a fraction of the time — about three minutes . |
| 9 | Cos I heard it takes as long . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | This approach was partly dictated by the committee 's terms of reference , which required it to take ‘ account of resource assumptions and other guidance which the Secretary of State … may give , ’ and by the fact that its secretariat was provided by the Department of Health 's Medical Manpower Executive . |
| 12 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Er , it 's very difficult , yes you all laughed when I asked a question last year from over there to get a capital P in Pearson because you all laughed it took twenty weeks to get it in The Times , do you remember ? |
| 15 | The loco remained in service until 1947 but those final years saw it take on a neglected appearance but it remained at Gorton intact until 1950 . |
| 16 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 17 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 18 | Until a few years ago this was deadly serious stuff : ‘ The Americans would ram us if we came close — they knew it took us longer to get repaired . ’ |
| 19 | I knew it took a while to finish a board : there was not just the shaping , but the painting and the glassing . |
| 20 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 21 | From 1984 the anti-nuclear policy of the then newly elected Labour Government in New Zealand led it to take successive steps which the United States regarded as contrary to its obligations under the Pacific Security Treaty . |
| 22 | The 119-page report is the result of a 10-month review led by the Press Council 's chairman , Mr Louis Blom-Cooper , who after meeting the full council yesterday said he expected it to take until next summer to reach final agreement on the recommendations . |
| 23 | He has sported the distinctive moustache for many years and admitted it took some ‘ bare-faced cheek ’ to get rid of it . |
| 24 | he got it taken out to the back garden is n't it ? |
| 25 | ‘ She only did it to take him off you , ’ Nick said . |
| 26 | You think I did it to take my mind off , ’ Emily said . |
| 27 | How did the team investigate and how long did it take ? |
| 28 | ‘ Well , how long did it take you to get over it ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Why did it take so long for the world to wake up to what was going on , ’ she asked repeatedly . |
| 30 | How long did it take ? |