Example sentences of "[coord] it take [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And it take twenty four hours to go round once .
2 And it took all this time to get here .
3 We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time .
4 But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation .
5 All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was .
6 It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner .
7 But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China .
8 Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs .
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