Example sentences of "[verb] take [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken five years to get this one right and the Government will not want to repeat the mistakes of the mid-1980s when Nigel Lawson thought he had beaten inflation , only to discover that it was just sleeping . |
| 2 | It is remarkable that the talks have got so far , even if it has taken six years to get within touching distance of a deal . |
| 3 | Despite the Constabulary 's evil reputation , it has taken three years to get a law though Congress that abolished the organisation . |
| 4 | It has taken three years to get Tokyo 's approval for new lessons on Japan 's traditional arts . |
| 5 | London has come to be my second home , but it has taken some time to get used to it . |
| 6 | Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment . |
| 7 | no , it 's only going to take five minutes to get there |
| 8 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 9 | Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts . |
| 10 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Only 14 per cent of registration officers said they had taken positive action to get information to the half million people in homes or hostels . |
| 13 | He says there 's a lot of noise at this party and we need to take strong action to get the noise down . |