Example sentences of "have take [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 2 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 3 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 4 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 5 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 6 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 7 | There were plenty of hands for your Caledonian Canal , but it has taken us three months to assemble a workforce here at St Catherine 's Dock . |
| 8 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 9 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 10 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 11 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 14 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 15 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It had taken us seven hours to climb five pitches . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 20 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 22 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 23 | It 's taken me 24 years to go solo . |
| 24 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 25 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's taken us five years to get this far and by now we know when we 've had enough of each other and when to get out of the van and go and sit somewhere quiet to cool off , ’ says Craig . |