Example sentences of "[coord] it took [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | Sussex smugglers traded in luxury goods , particularly wine and tea , essential to the maintenance of genteel civility and it took rare , almost obsessive , members of the landed hierarchy to take a consistently firm line against it . |
| 3 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 4 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 5 | The stripes were hardly noticeable , as the cut was left longer here , but it took slight bumps in the ground in its stride , and cut well up to edges . |
| 6 | As early as 1872 , he was proposing the formation of a national body for deaf people , but it took long and persistent efforts on his part before the National Deaf and Dumb Society was founded in 1879 . |