Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] it take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we may feel on reading this that it takes two to perform — that performance requires , in however regressive or circular a fashion , the self that so many people believe they have , and that this epistolary Zuckerman exhibits here , in a display of inadvertence which may or may not implicate Philip Roth . |
| 2 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 3 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 4 | We are still languishing in the Edwardian era , when our great British Women 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore corsets under their tennis dresses and our great British men 's champions wore long flannels … when the bulk of entrants at Wimbledon were British because it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic , and another six to reach Australia ! |
| 5 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 6 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 7 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 8 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 9 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 10 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 11 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 12 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 13 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 14 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 15 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 16 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 17 | At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage . |
| 18 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |