Example sentences of "it [vb past] take [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , together with a piece by Mozart 's rival Salieri , was given in the orangery at the Schönbrunn palace on 7 February : it had taken just two weeks to write . |
| 2 | It was now about 2157 , and although it had taken just three minutes to use Conquest for the rescue , the transfer to the small boat and handling her while picking up the survivor had required seamanship of a high order . |
| 3 | When Stop Hinkley Expansion members had conducted a test run in 1957 to see just how quickly every house within the Hinkley Point evacuation zone could be visited ( as part of a campaign for sirens to be installed ) it had taken over two hours . |
| 4 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 5 | It had taken about twenty seconds . |
| 6 | Normally , he said , it was not difficult to revive babies who suffered collapses , but it had taken quite some time to get signs of life from Liam . |
| 7 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 8 | From foundations to roof it had taken only five months to reach this stage of construction . |
| 9 | Jerry informed me later , tearfully , that it had taken almost twenty minutes . |