Example sentences of "it [verb] n't take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't really got much — just my clothes and that , so it do n't take long . |
| 2 | I hope it do n't take me too long to get home — I could do with summat to eat . |
| 3 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 4 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 5 | Well it do n't take him long does it ? |
| 6 | It do n't take long now does it ? |
| 7 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 8 | It do n't take long to learn our song . |
| 9 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 10 | It did n't take him long to master the basics of what British Steel was all about and he has been just as versatile in acquiring an understanding of a diverse range of other businesses , from computers and oil drilling to knitwear machines . |
| 11 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 12 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 13 | It did n't take him long to realize that one less headache was getting rid of me . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it did n't take up hardly any space . ’ |
| 15 | It did n't take long to get her under control . ’ |
| 16 | It did n't take journalists long to catch the drift of Krushchev 's remarks and reports started to circulate that a British frogman had tried to spy on the Russian ships . |
| 17 | It did n't take long for him to bounce back , however , and during the latter part of the 1970s and early 1980s he and Trevino put themselves in for further chances of Open glory . |
| 18 | It did n't take long for Skipper to realise that the lunge whip was n't a threat , and we progressed to some rather wobbly circles . |
| 19 | ‘ It did n't take long for Skipper to realise that the lunge whip was n't a threat , and we progressed to some rather wobbly circles ’ |
| 20 | It did n't take him long , and all she wanted were her books and all the time the mother was crying and rocking backwards and forwards and the old father was ranting on in Yiddish . |
| 21 | There was quite a run on the unfashionable theatre 's box office but it did n't take old Fred by surprise . |
| 22 | ‘ It did n't take long , ’ he said slowly , ‘ for word to reach Brogan , Kerrigan and Mullen about Luke informin' on them . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It did n't take me long . ’ |
| 24 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 25 | It was n't much of a joke , but then it did n't take much to make Karen laugh . |
| 26 | But it seemed the doctor could persuade Sarah to do anything , for it did n't take much argument to convince her that it was wrong to be ungracious . |
| 27 | It did n't take much to persuade her to come and nothing would have prevented me from seeing precisely what it was that had turned my schoolfriend into what the Daily Express called ‘ a phenomena ’ . |
| 28 | It did n't take the curses of a man like Gérard Gravellier to take him there . |
| 29 | It did n't take long to track down Kimberly . |
| 30 | It did n't take long for the cobwebs of sleep to clear and for her to realize that it was the fire-bell . |