Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] him [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |