Example sentences of "it have taken [pers pn] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
2 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
3 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
4 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
5 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |