Example sentences of "[that] it take some " in BNC.

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1 The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words .
2 They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary .
3 The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust .
4 The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to .
5 Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department .
6 We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off .
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