Example sentences of "[coord] it took [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 2 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 3 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 4 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 5 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 7 | Portadown however remained dangerous and it took a superb block from Michael Smyth to deny Cunningham after brilliant work from Martin Russell on the left . |
| 8 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 9 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 10 | His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . |
| 11 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 12 | The Financial Reporting Review Panel informed the company that substituting the proposed requirements of an exposure draft for those of an existing accounting standard was not acceptable ; but it took no further action , since FRS 3 was expected shortly . |
| 13 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 14 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 15 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 16 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 17 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 18 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 19 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
| 20 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 21 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 22 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 23 | Do n't ask me how I kept going for so long , but it took a superhuman effort . |
| 24 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 25 | I 'm sorry we could n't do it the day you arrived , but it took a little bit of organizing . " |
| 26 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 27 | Gradually , the Services backs began to gel , but it took a fine individual try by Hull to reduce the deficit . |
| 28 | But it took a hard head to be so . |
| 29 | He was a suspect at the time , but it took a scientific breakthrough ten years later , to convict him — a DNA profile test which was pioneered by Cellmark Diagnostics in Abingdon in Oxfordshire : |
| 30 | Today the family has new hope , but it took an eight week jail term and the care of the prison 's medical officer to have Andrew admitted for treatment |