Example sentences of "it take [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes regular VHS tapes and offers a 24-hour timer facility . |
| 2 | It takes four hydrogen nuclei to make one nucleus of helium , and each time this happens there is a slight release of energy and a slight loss of mass . |
| 3 | It takes four place settings and costs £299.90 ( building-in kit extra ) |
| 4 | It takes four AA batteries . |
| 5 | It takes two AA size alkaline batteries . |
| 6 | It takes two AA size batteries . |
| 7 | It takes all Charles Martell 's skill and determination to steer a straight course at the Wye Valley Farm Park in Herefordshire . |
| 8 | ( If you can only store yeses and noes it takes seven punch holes to record the number ninety-nine . ) |
| 9 | Be it taking accurate telephone messages , preparing a quotation , or cooking a meal , quality management means it is done properly , all the time . |
| 10 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 11 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 12 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 13 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 14 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 15 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |