Example sentences of "[conj] it took [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 2 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 3 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 4 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 5 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 6 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |