Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have take [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 2 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 3 | The Snotling base fights at full effect until it has taken 3 wounds when it is removed . |
| 4 | If it has taken two weeks of nail-biting finally to pluck up courage to visit a clinic , only to be greeted by an unsympathetic or gruff receptionist , who demands details you had not expected to have to give in a loud voice , the temptation to cut and run may be overwhelming . |
| 5 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 6 | we 've already written , we 've already written last week to the Scottish office , we 've written to our member of parliament and we 've asked him to see if we can get a delay on the date because we 've taken three years to try and get planning consent . |
| 7 | And a player who was desperately unlucky on the day not to get the equalizer because he 's taken two players on he knows what he 's doing there he deliberately did that and was very unfortunately . |
| 8 | Before she had taken five steps she hit the chain link fencing that was invisible in the darkness . |
| 9 | I also bound up with my brochure , a number of photographs ; for I had taken two cameras abroad . |
| 10 | But as it has taken five years of intensive lobbying to assemble the necessary financial support from the native industry for this interesting if rather Teutonic initiative , one might assume that creativity and innovation are still not regarded as entirely positive values . |