Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [pers pn] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 2 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 3 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 4 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |