Example sentences of "it [adv] took a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
2 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
3 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
4 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
5 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
6 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
7 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |
8 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
9 | It then took a short break . |
10 | Erm but there again , riveting was never easy , so it it maybe took a wee bit of the the hard work out it . |
11 | It therefore took a southerly route across the prairie provinces of the Dominion . |