Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] years [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 2 | It had taken her four years to meet him and within an hour it was all over . |
| 3 | Yeah taken you two years to collect it . |
| 4 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He took over a team in turmoil — and it might take him five years to get it right . |
| 6 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 7 | The open road was all he knew ; he had spent forty of his fifty-five years tramping it in every kind of weather with only the fill of his pipe for company . |
| 8 | I do n't think he did anything in his later years did he ? |
| 9 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 10 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 11 | It took us three years to do it , but we changed the face of Mothercare and doubled the profits . |