Example sentences of "it [adv] took [art] [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 He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form .
9 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 .
10 It then took a short break .
11 It then took the Danish government to the European Court with a demand that construction work be stopped and tenders reopened .
12 Erm but there again , riveting was never easy , so it it maybe took a wee bit of the the hard work out it .
13 It therefore took a southerly route across the prairie provinces of the Dominion .
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