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

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1 When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust .
5 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 .
6 A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter .
7 Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences .
8 I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’
9 The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’
10 In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies .
11 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
12 Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge .
13 She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say .
14 He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time
15 That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating .
16 But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets .
17 And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy .
18 I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you .
19 It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us .
20 Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision .
21 But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be .
22 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
23 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
24 The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion .
25 It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) .
26 Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up .
27 Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’
28 As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations .
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