Example sentences of "and it [verb] [not/n't] take [det] " in BNC.

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1 So it 's a And it does n't take all day .
2 You keep your teeth for life and it does n't take much to work towards this goal — just follow the advice given in this leaflet .
3 Otherwise , for a jingle of coin we can do you a selection of gory romances , full o fine cadence and corpses , pirated from the Italian ; and it does n't take much to make a jingle — even a single coin has music in it .
4 Appendages in the ‘ head ’ region often include powerful claws , and it does not take much imagination to conclude that these eurypterids were among the fiercest predators of their day .
5 And it does not take much for this dis-ease of the self to become disease of the body .
6 In other words , publishing commitments have to be substantial and it does not take much to sap confidence when the risk is so high .
7 To make the book come even more to life , the author introduces hypothetical characters , the Sportsman , the Visitor and the Engineer , and it does not take much imagination to think of their behaviour in driving or road design .
8 My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’
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