Example sentences of "it took [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 2 | It took all day to cross the Nullarbor . |
| 3 | It took little time to decide that her new mama was just like the doll , with her big blue eyes , and her made up face and blonde hair . |
| 4 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 5 | It took considerable time to charge the palladium fully and Fleischmann was in Britain when , one night , Pons ' son was sent to the laboratory to reduce the current . |
| 6 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 7 | By 1920 it was appreciated that the Great War had brought about many changes , particularly in Europe and around the Mediterranean area ; Europe 's domination of the world had been weakened , and there was a marked decline in ‘ colonisation ’ , as well as a gradual change from ‘ British Empire ’ to ‘ British Commonwealth ’ , although it took another war to finalise that process . |
| 8 | Engaged as consultants , Alec Issigonis and Alex Moulton half solved the problem by changing the rear suspension , but it took another outsider to put BRM on the right track . |
| 9 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 10 | Despite Blake being one of techno 's true characters , it took Underground Resistance to hoist his star from the mire of obscurity . |
| 11 | Images of Nazism and the war appear so often on the screen that it took some effort to realise that these were real people inside those costumes ; that the peaked cap and leather boots were n't on hire from the wardrobe department . |
| 12 | It took some effort to stay upright with such variations in terrain . |
| 13 | Fernando would n't like that and she wanted to please him , not anger him , though it took some doing getting his anger up . |
| 14 | It took some courage to do so . |
| 15 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 16 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 17 | Therefore it took some time to penetrate the Boardrooms of British industry , because many of the early headhunters did not really speak the businessmen 's language . |
| 18 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 19 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 20 | It took some time to reassemble their people , so much so that presently Douglas , growing impatient , left some of his lesser commanders to round up the stragglers , attend to the wounded and collect the booty from the camp . |
| 21 | The advantage however is accidental , and brings with it difficulties of its own ; assuming that matter , unlike ch'i , is inert until moved , it took some time to arrive at the thought of inertia as either rest or uniform motion in a straight line . |
| 22 | Once he had got the idea of killing her ( and at first this fantasy did not seem very different from the reveries in which he wept by her open grave , comforted by young , fashionably dressed women ) it took some time to appreciate that this scenario was of quite a different type from the others . |
| 23 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 24 | It took some time to get the obstacle equipped with runners . |
| 25 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 26 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 27 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 28 | ‘ It took some time to bring your sister to a reasonable state of mind and to prevent her following Garry back to London . |
| 29 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 30 | It took some time to locate the bottle — normally as healthy as a young animal , Rory rarely had need of medication . |