Example sentences of "[adv] it take [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind .
2 Some have done better than others , but there 's just the physical reality of how long it takes the lower two strings to speak — it 's going to take a few milliseconds for that to happen .
3 And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing .
4 And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish .
5 And that 's why it took a long long time .
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