Example sentences of "it [vb past] take [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken me fifteen minutes . |
| 2 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 3 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 4 | It was not till 14 August 1779 that the little five-ship force led by the self-styled ‘ Commander-in-Chief of the American squadron now in Europe ’ finally left Brest , but by the 21st it had taken its first prize and others rapidly followed . |
| 5 | It had taken her four years to meet him and within an hour it was all over . |
| 6 | It had taken her four years to get over him ; four years to get to the point where she could tell herself with some conviction that she had shaken off the last of the memories and was really ready to get on with her life . |
| 7 | Later , over a cup of coffee backstage , Kylie talks frankly about homesickness and how it had taken her two years to adjust to life in England . |
| 8 | It had taken her twenty-two years , but in the end the truth had finally sunk in . |
| 9 | She said it had taken her seven years to learn to play it , and the only problem was when there was a power cut . |
| 10 | It had taken her precious time to track down the people Lori had stayed with , only to discover , when she arrived , that Lori had flown off to Caracas . |
| 11 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 12 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 13 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 16 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had taken their combined savings to make the down payment on a house in overcrowded Tollemarche and Isobel had declared that she could manage without a car . |
| 20 | It had taken us seven hours to climb five pitches . |