Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] it take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 2 | If you go to , your master 's away cu say he 's gone to race meeting and it takes two day , they 're going to be up at , say Ascot , more likely he goes for the week . |
| 3 | ‘ I started heart massage but it took three minutes to get any sign of life . |
| 4 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 5 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 6 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 7 | In a ground loop there are very high inertia forces on the fin and it takes expert knowledge to detect quite serious damage in these areas , particularly with T-tailed types . |
| 8 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 9 | well ha you , what you have is you have erm the ship , first of all you have the ship , it 's a plain ship on a white background , then you have the lights on a black background and then you have that blue bit in the middle but it takes three shots |
| 10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 11 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |