Example sentences of "[pers pn] have taken [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have taken it a stage further with the inclusion of many groups usually seen as problematic , linking them with more familiar body plans . |
| 2 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
| 3 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 4 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 5 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
| 6 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 7 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
| 8 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
| 9 | He 's taken it a step further too … producing a microchip that carries the individual voice pattern . |