Example sentences of "[verb] it take all " in BNC.

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1 In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place .
2 And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre .
3 ‘ Well , I suppose it takes all sorts to make a world . ’
4 It 's a trick but it helps it took all the
5 Erm , personally , you know , I think it takes all the fun out of all those red notices that I get all the time .
6 There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me .
7 you see it taken all the straw and its chewed all me clematis and everything got it all inside his little nest
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