Example sentences of "it took an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took an amazing amount of effort . |
| 2 | It took an injured knee to convince the 28-year-old star that he wanted to become an actor . |
| 3 | ‘ It took an awful lot of my powers as Chairman of Academic Review and Resources Committee to steer that course through because it did mean a lot of resource implications that were n't obvious at the beginning . |
| 4 | It took an interminable time . |
| 5 | His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . |
| 6 | It took an enormous effort to drag her thoughts on to safer ground . |
| 7 | It took an enormous amount of television coverage to produce only a small change in the public agenda ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 8 | It took an enormous amount of discussion to persuade me that we had enough intrinsic skills to mount a successful oil operation , but those closer to the competition and the marketplace knew better than I their own relative abilities . |
| 9 | It took an active part in the National Charter Campaign of 1931 and in the Bermondsey Unity Congress of 1934 . |
| 10 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |