Sentence examples for it took both from inspiring English sources
11. (C) U/S Burns responded that the United States had made very clear its willingness for direct diplomacy, but that it took both sides to make direct communication work.
It took both girls a year to extricate themselves from the relationships.
It took both MPs a long time to get into parliament.
"I think it took both of us by surprise a little," Ms. Hunter said.
It took both individual and state claimants from executive officials and legislative committees to the increasingly ascendant courts.
It is heavily planned, built of thick shadows and big-band polyphony, and it took both composer and artist most of a year to create.
It takes both dishes in its stride, particularly the picture-pretty red mullet (£21).
It takes both increasing temperature and tissue wetting for bud break and shoot emergence to occur.
It takes both cold- and warm-blooded prey and is important in rodent control.
