Example sentences of "[adv] it take a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
2 | The zeal does not always survive the pedestrian management structures of local government , and perhaps it takes a more than ordinary enthusiasm to persist after the efforts of economizing councillors under pressure to do something about the rates . |
3 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
4 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
5 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
6 | Inevitably it takes a great deal of time to go into these cases . |
7 | As Lord er the Lord Chief Justice said in a television programme Question Time er two nights ago it takes a good deal of experience before somebody 's qualified to be a judge and when you do become a judge you have a great deal to learn . |
8 | ‘ Is n't it taking a big chance , sending a man like Dalby inside Romania ? |
9 | Does n't it take a long time to change people 's attitude against authority . |
10 | And and sometimes it takes a long time , does n't it . |
11 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
12 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
13 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
14 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
15 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
16 | Yet it took a brilliant save by Martin to keep Hearts out after 27 minutes when he went full stretch to grab McLaren 's header from a Derek Ferguson corner at his left-hand post . |
17 | Thankfully their performance was much better , yet it took a pointed comment from Michelle Detroit to get the crowd onto their feet and drum up some atmosphere . |
18 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
19 | That 's why it took a long time for the light to get to you . ’ |
20 | And that 's why it took a long long time . |