Example sentences of "it [vb past] he [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Frederick , it took him two years to get over Alice 's departure to France . |
| 2 | Giardini ended the season in serious financial embarrassment , virtually imprisoned in his home for fear of his creditors — and it took him five years to pay off a huge overdraft of –602 . |
| 3 | It took him four years to write his third , and posthumously published , novel , A Voice Through a Cloud ( 1950 ) , an account of the accident itself and his struggle to convalesce . |
| 4 | It took him four years to get used to the doors at Stoneleigh ! |
| 5 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 6 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |