Example sentences of "have n't taken [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 2 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 3 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 4 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 5 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |