Example sentences of "it [vb past] take [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
| 2 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
| 3 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 4 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 5 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
| 6 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 7 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 8 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
| 9 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 10 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 11 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |