Example sentences of "it [verb] take [pers pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken me twelve years to be as sure as I am now , and it might take a few more to be absolutely sure . |
| 2 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had taken me fifteen minutes . |
| 8 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 9 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 10 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 11 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 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 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It had taken us seven hours to climb five pitches . |
| 17 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 21 | It 's taken me 24 years to go solo . |
| 22 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 23 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 24 | It 's taken me 6 years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |
| 28 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 29 | It 's taken them two years . |
| 30 | It 's taken them twenty years |