Example sentences of "it do [adv] take " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't really got much — just my clothes and that , so it do n't take long . |
| 2 | I hope it do n't take me too long to get home — I could do with summat to eat . |
| 3 | It do n't take as long as they say . ’ |
| 4 | or what have you , but erm , it do n't take very long |
| 5 | Well it do n't take him long does it ? |
| 6 | It do n't take long now does it ? |
| 7 | Yeah I 'd considered buying it and all that , you know it do n't take five minutes you know , and I took it for a test drive |
| 8 | It do n't take long to learn our song . |
| 9 | It did not take long . |
| 10 | In the same week in which President Bush appeared on national television brandishing $3,200 worth of cocaine ( coercively obtained from a dealer who was dragged a block or two nearer the White House ) to raise the air-time mileage he earns on drugs , it did not take long for outrage to be expressed . |
| 11 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 12 | Still , it did not take long to sell , and as soon as people started to look over it , she told her family . |
| 13 | It did not take long to see the extension of the concept . |
| 14 | The movement 's historian has described it as ‘ a landmark in Free Church history ’ although he admitted ‘ it did not take hold on the life of the Free Churches in the way that might have been expected ’ . |
| 15 | Compared with what was happening in contemporary marine invertebrates , the visible changes in mammalian skeletons during the early part of the Tertiary were fast and dramatic ; it did not take long before the roles of larger herbivores and carnivores were filled by mammalian animals . |
| 16 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 17 | Apparently it did not take her long to provide services for both husband and wife . |
| 18 | It did not take long for the police to trace Mrs Dyer to Caversham where she was arrested . |
| 19 | It did not take me long to realize that this was the man I had needed so badly . ’ |
| 20 | Given the will and serious intent , it did not take long for me to become acquainted with Hellen 's colleagues , ‘ Wally ’ Hamilton and Oscar Burritt . |
| 21 | It did not take long for engineers to realise they could use more than one microphone , and ‘ balance ’ the music internally . |
| 22 | But it did not take a sharp journalistic instinct to realise that for refugees — particularly young refugees — life could never be that simple . |
| 23 | It did not take long to realise that what really worried Mrs Baran was Franziska 's relationship with her husband , although : ‘ … from the way in which Mr Baran talked about Franzi I did not at all get the impression that there is any reason for Mrs Baran to be jealous ’ . |
| 24 | In nine cases out of ten , it did not take a professional analyst to detect the cause of the problem . |
| 25 | It did not take Hugo long to decide that the boy was wilful : he could learn , he just did not want to . |
| 26 | It did not take long upon his return from Hong Kong for Lugard 's sensitive nose to detect an atmosphere of insubordination in Northern Nigeria . |
| 27 | And it did not take long for it all to boil down to that maxim — the Duty To Win . |
| 28 | If the auditors ' report under s 248(3) were included in the accounts ( in a way which did not cause confusion ) , the company would be entitled to the exemptions , even if it did not take advantage of them . |
| 29 | It did not take long for the two of them to agree that cost-cutting and restructuring were required . |
| 30 | It did not take long to fetch the horses round . |