Example sentences of "it take [adj] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they crested a wooded hill shortly before sunset and saw cultivated fields stretching down towards a small village in the distance it took all her will-power not to beg that they stop there for the night . |
| 2 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 3 | It took all her determination to stand her ground until finally he brushed past her . |
| 4 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 5 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 6 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |