Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] [pos pn] strength " in BNC.
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| 1 | The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out . |
| 2 | It took all her strength to reach out for the receiver and raise it stiffly to her ear . |
| 3 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 4 | And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre . |
| 5 | It took all my strength and nerve to control the final inch of its closing . |