Example sentences of "it be take [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there still waiting on the twenty fourth May , I said well I have n't got it yet , he said no it 's taking two weeks or so . |
| 2 | I 'll tell you this ; every term when I watch that school train go out I feel as if it 's taking two-thirds of me with it . ’ |
| 3 | I would n't know whether that is pregnant or not , it 's taking deep breaths |
| 4 | Oxford University is n't renowned for moving with the times , but it 's taking this equal opportunities business really rather seriously . |
| 5 | It 's taken nine hundred men just two years to complete the project . |
| 6 | I 'm just surprised it 's taken two weeks . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , it 's taken 4 years and £600 million to create to the new Peugeot 605 range . |
| 8 | It 's taken five years of your life , but at least you 're getting your just rewards now . ’ |
| 9 | It 's taken five years and sixty thousand pounds to get this far … half way . |
| 10 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 11 | It 's taken gravity-defying tightrope walking by boxing authorities to keep the title unified , even if it is once again threatening to be shattered into pieces by Bowe 's refusal to honour a deal to immediately defend against Lewis . |
| 12 | It 's taken 14 weeks less than planned . |
| 13 | It 's taken 85 years for the Goodman family name to appear on one of their motorbikes , but looking at the HDS 1200 on the road , the wait has been well worthwhile . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's taken this long to get over it and , as many good athletes have discovered to their cost , the temptation has always been to carry on training . |
| 15 | It 's taken 3 years of planning , £16,000 in donations and bucketfuls of elbow grease to install the collection in the 12th century church and all for a parish of fewer than 700 people . |
| 16 | It 's taken 3 years to build . |
| 17 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 18 | It 's taken ten years to convert the whole farm and today it offers a vision of what organic farms of the future could look like . |
| 19 | He confesses he found the book 's success unreal and it 's taken several years to find level ground again . |
| 20 | It 's taken 114 years to build up Blackwells from a one-room shop to today 's multi-million pound business . |
| 21 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 22 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 23 | This is the game … this is the goal the Swindon fans will treasure for ever … their first win in the Premiership … it 's taken three months and sixteen games to get it … |
| 24 | It 's taken some time to construct . |
| 25 | And it 's took all the fire out of it he there ai n't no fire in that bottom one . |
| 26 | Surprising though it may seem , although it is now well established that this is a serious problem with gliding , it is almost unknown in power flying circles or in the Air Force and it is taking many years to convince authorities . |
| 27 | For the time being Microsoft has its guns trained on the Unix application base , but it is taking little or no effort to persuade ISVs to port to an operating system that by even its own admission wo n't be around until next Spring at the earliest . |
| 28 | ( 5 ) The more ducks a cat has to choose from the less likely it is to take one duck in particular . |
| 29 | I mean it was taking that whole Swiss thing and saying that okay these are the new rules , whereas The Guardian accepts some of the old rules . |
| 30 | It was taking all her concentration to breathe normally , not be begin shaking again , with their arms linked and their bodies so close . |