1.   But after the daily fear of death and the thud of mortar during the war years, the simple pleasures of the beach take getting used to.

2.   But in any case, controls like this take some getting used to.

3.   Judith Martin, who writes the syndicated Miss Manners column, said new technology takes getting used to.

4.   The forms that stagecraft takes get tastier and tastier.

5.   The incongruity of being at war and at play simultaneously will take some getting used to.

6.   The player view is third person, but the free-roaming camera takes some getting used to.

7.   This will take some getting used to, but anyone who is not an Atlanta Brave will have a head start.

8.   It took nine takes to get it right.