Example sentences of "it took [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took twenty-six separate Cabinet meetings to resolve the issue . |
| 2 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 3 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 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 | In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ . |
| 6 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 7 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 8 | IT TOOK three head-on rail collisions before safety specialists started to analyse the risk at controversial junctions , a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 9 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |