Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 2 | But it did not take a sharp journalistic instinct to realise that for refugees — particularly young refugees — life could never be that simple . |
| 3 | In nine cases out of ten , it did not take a professional analyst to detect the cause of the problem . |
| 4 | ‘ No man to upset and it did not take a great deal to upset him . ’ |
| 5 | It did not take the family long to appreciate her situation . |
| 6 | It did n't take a psychic to see that Annie had worked that out for herself . |
| 7 | Katze had never seen this type of explosive , but it did n't take a scientific genius to work out what the thing was . |
| 8 | It did n't take a great mind to work out that this was some security conscious area . |
| 9 | It did n't take a Freud to work out the significance of that dream , she thought dully , making her way to the tiny cabinet which the hotel proprietors chose to call a private bathroom . |
| 10 | She could n't see his expression but it did n't take a fool to realise that distaste and contempt must lurk there . |
| 11 | But it did n't take a genius to guess there had been a woman involved , someone with whom to share the dream of Rocamar . |
| 12 | But er it , it did n't take a lot to keep me busy . |
| 13 | It did n't take a lot of learning . |
| 14 | It did n't take the curses of a man like Gérard Gravellier to take him there . |
| 15 | I 'm surprised it did n't take the whole of the top of your head off ! ’ |
| 16 | It did n't take the man long . |
| 17 | It did n't take the Brain of Britain to deduce that he had known , somehow , that she had drugged his coffee , and full marks to his rapier mind — he had turned the tables , or rather the mugs , very neatly . |
| 18 | IT did n't take the small but determined palmist , medium and clairvoyant Verran Boswell to tell me I would never afford the ‘ Dream House ’ at the Ideal Home Exhibition . |
| 19 | He was was quite right , it did n't take an hour . |
| 20 | It did n't take an hour , you 're right . |
| 21 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 22 | With bored businessmen and other visitors , it had n't taken the authorities long to realize that gambling was an important source of foreign currency . |
| 23 | Yet it had still taken the pair of them more than two hours to assemble and photocopy the material that Morse had so confidently predicted would be found . |
| 24 | It had obviously taken the wrong channel and become wedged on a rising shelf of rock strata which traversed the trough about fifty yards before it reached the lake surrounding the breakwater . |
| 25 | It had only taken a glance to recognise the ship 's chandler , the site corroborated by the smell of tarred rope ; the same with Mick 's Bar and Johnson 's store . |
| 26 | It had only taken a few weeks for Lucy Ashdown to become one of the more useful ringers on Charlie 's list of reserves . |
| 27 | It had only taken a matter of yards for her to acknowledge that her sandals made abysmal hiking boots . |