Example sentences of "[verb] it [modal v] [vb infin] time " in BNC.

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1 If you 're travelling outside the area in which the flotilla is sailing it may take time to reach you , so our flotilla guarantee does not apply .
2 I always knew it would take time .
3 He wanted her to relax into happiness — physically , mentally , spiritually — but he knew it would take time .
4 Where an instrument is laid subject to affirmative resolution procedure , the Government sponsoring it must find time in the Houses for a vote on it and it must secure an affirmative vote .
5 Henry 's replies were equally blunt ; he offered help but said it would take time and , if matters should prove too difficult , she was to return immediately to England .
6 The man who had planted it would want time to get clear before an explosion occurred greater than the blasts which had flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
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