Example sentences of "it [vb mod] take more " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , when a quail is chased by a man , it must take more steps to run at the same speed . |
| 2 | Even now the magnetism that drew her to him was so strong that if he knocked at her door and said he 'd changed his mind , in spite of everything , it might take more amor proprio than she could muster to refuse him . |
| 3 | It 'll take more time than buying an off-the-shelf solution , it wo n't be so neatly packaged , and there are a few ‘ gotchas ’ for the unwary . |
| 4 | So it 'll take more of them . |
| 5 | But it 'll take more than a few bruises to soften him up . |
| 6 | I used to be Harry Maxim , then I was me and Jenny , and now I just do n't know and it 'll take more than lemon tea and a pink silk handkerchief in my sleeve and reading Goethe over breakfast to tell me . |
| 7 | It 'll take more than a tender touch to help the victims of the oily sea . |
| 8 | Good Lord no it 'll take more . |
| 9 | And it could take more than a change of luck to lift them off the bottom of the table . |
| 10 | ‘ I think it 'd take more than a lot of nomes and some string to fly it , anyway . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It 'd take more than a few facts to convince Dudley Ford that he 's mistaken ! |
| 12 | But , says Alfred , it would take more than Hollywood stardom to lure him away from the Sussex cottage he shares with Jill and 12-year-old Rachel , his daughter from a previous relationship . |
| 13 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 14 | ‘ It would take more than you to take advantage of me . |
| 15 | Add the life and colour of cities such as New York , Washington , San Francisco and Vancouver , and this is a land it would take more than a lifetime to truly discover . |
| 16 | It would take more than pistols to counter a new challenge from the army . |
| 17 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 18 | Faced with such rhapsodic prose I felt it would take more subtlety and sagacity than I could command to make obscurity flee before me . |
| 19 | It would take more than a sharp tongue to cut down Alexander Vass . |
| 20 | Today so few theatregoers travel by bus that it would take more than a strike of the red giants to kill anything on stage . |
| 21 | ‘ It would take more than a ring to get me into your bed , ’ she retorted furiously . |
| 22 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 23 | It will take more than the prospect of weight savings to prompt them to abandon this safe method . |
| 24 | First impressions , therefore , are of a fascinating and challenging work , so full of choreographic riches that it will take more viewings fully to savour them . |
| 25 | It will take more than a few scandal-mongers to sink him . |
| 26 | It will take more than a streak of dogged determination to see it through . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm a very strong person and it will take more than that to get rid of me , ’ he said . |
| 28 | TOO MUCH SUPPLY , TOO LITTLE DEMAND It will take more than an upturn to cheer the developers up — there will be little for them to do until tenants move into the large areas of commercial space that have yet to be let |
| 29 | Fullback Jim Staples received a helping hand , but it will take more than the magic sponge to get the Irish side back on its feet . |
| 30 | It will take more than the ratification of the treaty to restore Britain 's European credentials . |