Example sentences of "and it took [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked like the devil incarnate as he stood there glaring at her , and it took every scrap of courage and pride Fran possessed to stand and face him . |
| 2 | That 's what I did when I started my furniture business , building it up gradually from a crude workshop and it took a hell of a long time . |
| 3 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 4 | The Nature Conservancy Council is the body responsible for advising the Government on nature conservation in Great Britain , and it took a lead in providing the considerable resources required for specialist survey work . |
| 5 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 6 | They set off in November 1923 and it took a year to set up the expedition . |
| 7 | The sand , shingle and shells were a prehistoric beach , preserved somehow over millions of years — and it took a breakdown for me to discover it . |
| 8 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |
| 9 | And it took a lot for me to face some of those things . |
| 10 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 11 | Wednesday 's Harkes missed two chances and it took a first-half strike from right-back Roland Nilsson to show the frontmen how to do it . |
| 12 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That 's why there were a couple of early hiccups and it took a while to settle in . |
| 14 | The first attempt on the buttress was delayed for two days because of bad weather , and it took a total of five days to climb the feature , which included a band of loose rock at the base , and reconnoitre the south ridge to the start of a large rock pillar at about 5,900 metres . |
| 15 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |
| 16 | My daughter was born during the Truby King period , and it took a month of untold agony for myself and the child before I threw every book I had out of the house and all my well meaning and Truby King obsessed relatives with them . |
| 17 | And it took a lot of persuasion for them to just admit that . ’ |
| 18 | Historically , there was a ‘ privilege ’ , and it took a number of different forms . |
| 19 | It was out in the wilds somewhere and it took a while to find him . |
| 20 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 21 | A Protestant mob was so incensed by what he said that they wrecked the Irish quarter , breaking in the fronts of houses and knocking down their roofs , and it took a battalion of troops to restore order . |
| 22 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 23 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 24 | This is because MouseMan Cordless has its roller ball sited further forward , virtually under one 's forefinger and it took a bit of time getting used to , as did a small but perceptible response lag . |
| 25 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 26 | Oh it 's a tremendous run and it took a very fine tackle by Chettle to stop him . |
| 27 | In a day of shocks her brain had become sluggardly , and it took a full thirty seconds for the import of his words to sink in . |
| 28 | I know I was , and it took a tragedy like this to make me see straight . ’ |
| 29 | Portadown however remained dangerous and it took a superb block from Michael Smyth to deny Cunningham after brilliant work from Martin Russell on the left . |
| 30 | and it took a lot longer . |