Example sentences of "[adv] it take the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No apparently it takes the whole top of it |
| 2 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 3 | Often enough it takes the same form as with Beerbohm : the affectation of an anachronistic ignorance about what life in North America is like . |
| 4 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 5 | More often it takes the plural form , indicating partition of the property between co-heiresses , like Agnes Chaplayne and Beatrix Salesbury at Gayhurst , Bucks . |