Example sentences of "it take some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes some sort of public document for people to get you out of a rut . ‘ |
| 2 | After ploughing and reseeding , it takes some years for the soil to recover its stable structure , and the grass roots to develop their full strength . |
| 3 | It takes some years for the populace to realize that couples need not conceive so many children merely to ensure the survival of two or three . |
| 4 | It takes some weeks for the normal bowel bacteria to adjust . |
| 5 | It takes some time for a breach of contract claim to reach a trial . |
| 6 | Besides which , it takes some time for a new general to adapt to his command , and time was something we did not have . ’ |
| 7 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 8 | It was concerned mainly with England , though it took some evidence from other English-speaking countries ( including Scotland ) . |
| 9 | It took some effort for Charles not to lose heart . |
| 10 | It took some balls to beard the Colonel in his lair . |
| 11 | It took some years for a lobby to emerge , strong enough to bring pressure to bear on the scandal of the continuing presence of the nineteenth-century slums . |
| 12 | Another role for town planning beckoned ; it took some years for regional economic planning practice to take coherent shape , but the gauntlet of the conceptual challenge had been thrown down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Even in a presidency capital like Bombay , it took some time for the station to catch up with the developing pretension of the city . |
| 15 | It took some time for the War Office to be persuaded that fugitives from the enemy could usefully serve their adopted country . |
| 16 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 17 | It took some time for such an admission to emerge . |
| 18 | Because of this last-minute genesis , it took some time for the Inland Revenue to turn Mr Major 's jottings into a workable form . |
| 19 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 20 | It took some time for all the records to be checked , but it 's now agreed that IBM Corp 's full year net loss for 1992 of $4,965m goes down in history as the largest corporate loss on record , taking the baton from General Motors Corp . |
| 21 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 22 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 23 | It took some time for the first volunteers to come forward . |
| 24 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 25 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 26 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 27 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 28 | It took some time before the real Kenneth Williams came to the surface . |