Example sentences of "it [adv] took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every thing was alright , though it rather took the wind out of my sails to know that I would n't get to speak to him after all . |
| 2 | It only took a moment to make up his mind . |
| 3 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 4 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 5 | This was n't a major catastrophe , and it only took a minute to rectify , but it 's a clear case of poor quality control . |
| 6 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 7 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 8 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 9 | It only took an instant , yet when you look back into their eyes you know that they know that you did it , and you know that they know that you know that they know ! |
| 10 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 11 | It obviously took a while to find my feet with the group but when I had done I really started to enjoy myself . |
| 12 | It obviously took the photographer , Arthur Richardson , some time to set up his equipment as he has attracted the attention of a few of the locals . |
| 13 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 14 | But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble . |
| 15 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 16 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 17 | It normally took the form of shearing , combining , baling , muck spreading , etc . |
| 18 | It soon took the lead staying close for an hour , and left shortly before we saw Lake Angelus . |
| 19 | It largely took the form of financial incentives to companies to move to , or expand within , certain parts of the country . |
| 20 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 21 | His eighth minute back-pass fell fatally short of the courageous Stephen Pears in the Middlesbrough goal , but it still took an exceptional finish from Rosenthal to find the net from an awkward angle . |
| 22 | He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form . |
| 23 | Even the idea that criminals are physically distinguishable has continued to be pursued to the present day ( Hartl et al. , 1982 ) , although it later took the form of relating types of body build to personality types . |
| 24 | It really took the late-Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to ’ |
| 25 | It really took the late Eighties and Nineties before I had people I could relate to . |
| 26 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 27 | It then took a short break . |
| 28 | It then took the Danish government to the European Court with a demand that construction work be stopped and tenders reopened . |
| 29 | It then took the rest of the century to get my leather jacket on over the plaster . |
| 30 | There it chiefly took the form of a simple geographical advance of agriculture into the interior . |