Example sentences of "and 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 .
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