Example sentences of "it [adv] took [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it took me about er ten minutes to tell it , it just took ages and |
| 2 | It usually took Erlich little more than 30 seconds to get his shoes presentable , but Ruane was burnishing now with a golden duster . |
| 3 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 4 | Just think of the Titanic — everyone knew where she went down , but it still took years to find her . ’ |
| 5 | National growth was uneven ; in the north of England it quickly took root although in the northwest and in Wales it grew more slowly ; it was always weak in Liverpool . |
| 6 | Beltsville , Maryland-based Micros Systems Inc reports that it has bought a 15% equity interest in Fidelio Software GmbH of Munich , Germany for an undisclosed cash sum with the option to buy the company outright over six years ; it also took majority stakes in three Fidelio distribution and support units . |
| 7 | This board dropped ‘ Unemployment ’ from its title in 1940 when it also took responsibility for supplementary pensions from local authorities ( Wilson 1948:97 — 8 ) . |
| 8 | So when modernity in Berlin — in the arts , in the massive new development of the city — took shape , so to speak , against the state , it also took shape in opposition to the identity of the German Bürgertum . |
| 9 | The development of textile manufacturing in the fifteenth century was not only one of the most fundamental economic changes of the period , but it also took men away from farming , created a market for the sale of agricultural products and gave an incentive to the producer to grow crops and raise stock beyond the levels required for his own consumption . |
| 10 | It also took courage to privatise vast tracts of nationalised industry — including British Steel , Rolls Royce , British Gas , British Telecom , British Airways and British Aerospace , the electricity and water industries , airports and other companies besides . |
| 11 | It also took representatives some moments to applaud the next phase of the speech , in which Mr Lawson responded to ‘ turbulence ’ in the money markets . |
| 12 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 13 | It also took typewriter ribbon spools , available everywhere at less than a £1 . |
| 14 | It also took measures to ease the so-called " credit crunch " , mainly by relaxing regulatory pressures in order to encourage bank lending . |
| 15 | The study 's starting point was a UN forecast that the world 's population will reach around 11.5 billion by the end of the next century , although it also took account of upper forecasts which suggest figures of 12.5 billion by 2050 and 28 billion by 2150 . |
| 16 | It nearly took Brenda 's breath away . |
| 17 | It hence took time to recreate his father 's empire . |
| 18 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 19 | As the title implies it originally took place on Whit Monday , but when this ceased to be a Bank Holiday it moved to the new Bank Holiday . |
| 20 | Although intermarriage between Scots and English Borderers was officially forbidden during many periods , and could be punishable by death , it frequently took place . |
| 21 | In summer this was heaven for us because it sometimes took hours to put things right and we would miss a large chunk of lessons . |
| 22 | The eagerness of the plea as opposed to the hasty promise before it quite took Charles aback . |
| 23 | It actually took place this year . |
| 24 | It subsequently took Mo 2,200 man hours to complete Sparkle . |
| 25 | told the police it never took place . |
| 26 | told the police it never took place . |