Example sentences of "it [vb past] not take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A report on the shooting was sent to the Crown Prosecution Service , but it decided not to take any action against Miss Hobson . |
| 2 | First , it did not take all the development value . |
| 3 | But it did not take many weeks of the Lancashire cotton famine ( due to the interruption of raw material supplies by the American Civil War ) to reduce even such a family to charity . |
| 4 | As Erica Macdonald admits , it did not take much to make the girls steer away . |
| 5 | It did not take much to reason that international capitalism had failed and that a new order must replace it . |
| 6 | My detectives had established your many moves and it did not take much intelligence to realise why . ’ |