Example sentences of "but it took the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | An usher made an unsuccessful attempt to separate the two men , but it took the intervention of the woman to calm things down . |
| 4 | I 'd realised that long ago , but it took the arrival of the boy to truly bring it home . |
| 5 | 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 . |