Example sentences of "but it took [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , a wendigo , straying far from its Northern haunts , brushed by riding a freak wind , but it took no interest in the lone Indian . |
| 2 | Admittedly , the last one is a fake , but it took a lawsuit to convince the Daily Express that it was n't true . |
| 3 | The Land Rover was waiting , but it took a minute or so to find a driver . |
| 4 | The money was good if you worked hard , really hard , but it took a while to get good enough on the machines to do that . |
| 5 | But I think it was built maybe in er in the er nineteen eighty or early eight maybe nineteen ninety five or thereabout but it took a while while they got it erected . |
| 6 | But it took a couple of goes to get the ball in the net . |
| 7 | But it took a lot of hard work spread over a year to raise the money , said Lindsay Mason , a member of the committee responsible for the fund raising . |
| 8 | I mean in retrospect , looking back on it , it seems crazy — since they were clearly both right , what were they arguing about ? erm but it took a lot of time to see that these two sets of views could , in fact , be made compatible as we now think they can be . |
| 9 | United had four cleared off the line … hit the bar twice but it took a hand ball and a penalty from Jim Magilton to get them back into the game … with ten minutes to go the Manor was celebrating an equaliser from Joey Beauchamp and surely they could see the second division side off … but after extra time it was still two all and now down to penalties … the crunch came when Chrissy Allen 's kick was saved … and Swansea 's Keith Walker scored to make it five four to the second division side on penalties … |
| 10 | A few months earlier , Sammy Woods of Australia and Harry Wood of England had had a near miss in this particular department , but it took a brace of Smiths to achieve a Test first . |
| 11 | But it took a deal of probing when he sought help to ascertain exactly what was the pressure inside Peter , bursting to get out when suitably triggered . |
| 12 | In Brightside the Unionist candidate had been specially demobilised for the election ; the Central Office agent for Yorkshire persuaded him to stand down , but it took a visit to Central Office before his supporters could be persuaded to support a Coalition Liberal that they had opposed at the last three elections . |
| 13 | Steve Pate said of his round with Faldo in the Open at Muirfield : ‘ It was like playing on my own — but it took an hour longer . ’ |
| 14 | Zeng was deeply affected by being exposed to a wider range of photographic influences and styles during these years , but it took an exhibition of Cartier-Bresson 's work in Peking in 1987 to finally convince him that photographs could actually carry meaning and profundities just as a painting or a piece of music can . |
| 15 | There had been a fairground at South Shore in the Nineties , but it took the efforts of W. G. Bean to create an American-style amusement park . |
| 16 | But it took the form of an insufferable élitist arrogance , a blanket rejection of ‘ Victorian taste ’ , largely because it was bourgeois , emotional , and — most reprehensible of all — popular , even with the masses . |
| 17 | An usher made an unsuccessful attempt to separate the two men , but it took the intervention of the woman to calm things down . |
| 18 | I 'd realised that long ago , but it took the arrival of the boy to truly bring it home . |
| 19 | As an apprentice director he quickly defined his own idiom but it took the initiative and the backing of MGM 's Irving Thalberg to sponsor his big prestige films . |