Example sentences of "it took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took a while before they finally trusted me with a little cooking . |
| 2 | It took a bit of getting used to . |
| 3 | It took a further eight years before classes got under way , and then only in medicine , and it was not till well into the 1850s that it became really established . |
| 4 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 5 | It took a while to sink in . ’ |
| 6 | It took a hell of a long time but learn we did . |
| 7 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 8 | It took a Labour Government less inhibited than the Tories with their informal links to the amateur élite to bring sport within the ambit of the welfare state by setting up the Sports Council . |
| 9 | It took a moment for Erika 's words to sink in . |
| 10 | It took a moment for the truth to sink in , but when it did Herr Nordern jumped . |
| 11 | It took a lot of organising . |
| 12 | ‘ It took a war to compel the British to look at themselves and find themselves interesting , ’ Dilys Powell was later to remark . |
| 13 | It took a team of distinguished judges several hours to emerge with the final shortlist of 60 semi-finalists . |
| 14 | ‘ It took a very long time to reconcile myself with my father . ’ |
| 15 | It took a further eight months before Barlow Clowes was closed down . |
| 16 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 17 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 18 | It took a lot of worry away from him . |
| 19 | It took a lot to faze a talented one like that , who had been a successful soloist for two years , managing with having a sick father and about one tenth of his mother 's attention . |
| 20 | It took a lifetime of service to master warfare in one element : breeding officers who could handle operations in all three would take time . |
| 21 | It took a five-year tussle with the Luftfahrt Bundesamt , the German body which sets aeronautical regulations , before the cylinders were approved for use in hot-air balloons . |
| 22 | It took a while to establish himself back in the team as his form was poor and he was not originally selected for the visit of the Australians in 1972–3 . |
| 23 | It took a lot of effort and explanations . |
| 24 | ‘ It took a deflection . ’ |
| 25 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 26 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 27 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 28 | It took a while for the true magnitude of his achievement to dawn on the crowd , shell-shocked as they were by the defeat of their hero . |
| 29 | The fineness of the gold began a gentle decline through the tenth century to about 90 per cent , and debasement accelerated during the following century until it took a sudden nosedive in the two decades between 1071 and 1092 , falling from about 70 per cent to a mere 10 per cent . |
| 30 | But it took a hard head to be so . |