Example sentences of "it [adv] took [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 2 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 3 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 4 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 5 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 6 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 7 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 8 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 9 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |
| 10 | He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form . |
| 11 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 12 | It really took the late-Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to ’ |
| 13 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 14 | It then took a short break . |
| 15 | It then took the Danish government to the European Court with a demand that construction work be stopped and tenders reopened . |
| 16 | Erm but there again , riveting was never easy , so it it maybe took a wee bit of the the hard work out it . |
| 17 | It therefore took a southerly route across the prairie provinces of the Dominion . |