Example sentences of "it [vb past] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September 1990 Vietnam appeared to accept in principle the concept of " involuntary repatriation " , when it agreed to take back " economic migrants " who , " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " . |
| 2 | Management could be faced ‘ with severe economic losses if it failed to take into account their views , or to win their consent on issues which were felt to be of major importance by the workforce ’ ( p. 314 ) . |
| 3 | First , it failed to take account of the fact that British industry at the time was undergoing traumatic upheavals and that the impact of this upon firms had to be recognized if the need to decentralize in the first place was to be understood . |
| 4 | In Aden Nizan had learned a simple and never-to-be-forgotten lesson : that to live one 's life , as he had since the age of twelve , with the sole objective of not being a loser was an inadequate response , since it failed to take account of the political and social structures which determined the real significance of such a project . |
| 5 | Given all this , a chapter about kitchens and kitchen decoration would be illogical to say the least , if it failed to take into account the room or area where food is served , which should bc as pleasant a place as possible . |
| 6 | When Habitat decided to launch its incredibly successful range of glass tableware in the US , it expected to take the American market by storm . |
| 7 | Whether the storm blew itself out quickly or not , the seas it moved took longer to reach their height , and longer , too , to die away . |
| 8 | It seemed to take an unreasonably long time and much bad temper , evasion and deliberate obfuscation , together with consultation of a diary that appeared to be alternately blank and covered with scribbled hieroglyphics . |
| 9 | It seemed to take forever to get up that face , like climbing the rungs of Jacob 's ladder . |
| 10 | One last rocky outcrop of headland ; it seemed to take an age to round . |
| 11 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 12 | I only live a few doors down the road from Derek and normally it would have taken me just a minute or two , but on this occasion it seemed to take ages . |
| 13 | It seemed to take an unduly long time before it took hold . |
| 14 | Ruth knew there was something strange about him , but it seemed to take her an age to work out what it was : he was wearing a green cloak , and its folds drifted round him as if floating in water . |
| 15 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 16 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 17 | It seemed to take an enormous amount of courage to actually walk up to the door and knock . |
| 18 | It seemed to take him an age to remember . |
| 19 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 20 | ‘ It seemed to take a lot of counting up . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 22 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |
| 23 | Whether or not the Commission had now fallen under the influence of the CEGB , it seemed taken by surprise when the Scottish Friends of the Earth invited Dr Joachim Puhe from Professor Ulrich 's team at Gottingen University to survey British sites ‘ likely ’ to show forest decline . |
| 24 | Even though he was on salary for the film , and not a huge one at that , when it began to take off and the weekly gross takings at the box office began mounting in millions rather than thousands , Hopper arranged for Jack to get a percentage . |
| 25 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 26 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 27 | In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 . |
| 28 | He had to dodge in to the roadside as an open-backed van loaded with milk-crates passed , its brakelights glowing as it slowed to take in the bend . |
| 29 | For my tastes , the Contour control was only usable up to about 5 , where it started to take on that ‘ no tone ’ sound , evoking images of preserve jars and trapped insects . |
| 30 | It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that the Government made an error of judgment when it decided to take Britain into the ERM in October 1990 , just as Germany was entering an economic crisis . |