Example sentences of "it take [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me , at least — and I think for most people who travel around this country for pleasure , that is , to see things — it is simply that one gets a greater depth of pleasure out of knowing the anatomy of a town and why it takes that particular form and not just its superficial features , however attractive they may be individually . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to tell which wines will win , and easy to say when wine is good , but it takes that little bit extra to make it a winner . |
| 3 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 4 | It took many long years for the twelve swords to emerge from the workshops of Alaric , long years even for a Dwarf , and , as it proved , more than the lifetime of a man . |
| 5 | I already knew that the forebrain roof of the chick was particularly rich in the receptor , and the assay method was fast enough for me to measure it in a couple of hundred brain samples during a single twelve-hour day ( although , inevitably , it took several subsequent days to analyse and calculate all the results ) . |
| 6 | To say it is a hidden village is an understatement as it took some hawk-eyed map reading and signpost spotting to get us there in the first place . |