Example sentences of "[verb] taken i [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 2 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 3 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 5 | I 've eventually got there — but it 's taken me all these years , ’ she says . |