Example sentences of "[pron] have take he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 2 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 3 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 4 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 5 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 6 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 7 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 8 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 9 | so anyway he 's he 's engaged and it 's taken him two years to get engaged so it 's gon na take another couple of years to get married . |
| 10 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |
| 11 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |
| 12 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |