Example sentences of "it had take [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
2 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
3 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
4 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
5 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
6 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
7 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
8 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
9 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
10 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
11 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
12 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |
13 | It had taken the last half-hour to muster the courage to mention the subject yet again . |
14 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |