Example sentences of "[vb past] take three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swiss played us off the field in both our European ties a year ago , yet we managed to take three points from them . |
| 2 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 3 | The two men had burned away the safe door which Joyce said had taken three hours . |
| 4 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
| 5 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 6 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
| 7 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 8 | And , once he had taken three months off to play for England in Australia , the rumour seemed to have died the death . |
| 9 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
| 10 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |