Example sentences of "[coord] it took [adj] [noun sg] " 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 In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history .
3 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 .
4 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
5 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 .
6 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
7 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 .
8 She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say .
9 The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away .
10 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 .
11 That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating .
12 But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets .
13 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 .
14 I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be .
18 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
19 But it took some time for our achievement to sink in .
20 Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track .
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