Example sentences of "it [vb past] take [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it seemed to take more than half an hour . |
| 2 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 3 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 4 | But it did take some time . |
| 5 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 6 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 7 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 8 | It had taken all his willpower not to plunge himself inside her there and then . |
| 9 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 10 | It had taken all her strength to go to the man who thought children were special . |
| 11 | It had taken all her strength to get this far in her life . |
| 12 | It had taken all her courage to come here with head held high , to converse with any degree of composure with the young men who interestedly flocked about her , thanks to Araminta 's loose tongue . |
| 13 | Even so , it had taken some little effort on his part , for here was this relatively obscure relation who had fallen into an estate , which , although small , was of no mean value , and he had fallen into it by a series of dead men 's shoes . |
| 14 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 15 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 16 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 17 | It had taken half an hour , the inside of his head fitting loosely , like a drawer in an old chest . |
| 18 | When the landlord 's agents and the militia arrived , the tenants offered the whole of next year 's rent in advance if only Mrs. Pedelty would leave them at peace ; it had taken half an hour to get word to her of this offer and to bring back her refusal Then they asked for compensation for the land they had cleared and she sent back to say if they persisted in the claim she would sue for dilapidation and waste . |