Example sentences of "[pers pn] does take a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She does take a good photograph .
2 Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another .
3 It does take a long while does n't it ?
4 The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food .
5 There 's no need to be paranoid but sometimes it does take a conscious effort to be aware of what is going on around you .
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