Example sentences of "have taken [pers pn] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
2 | I has taken me a while to figure out that ‘ we ai n't got Windows , we got DOS ’ so I would appreciate any advice in your columns on the basics — what sorts of programs are suitable for a simple soul like me who needs to knock out the odd poster , magazine or newsletter and something that will look more professional , from time to time . |
3 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
4 | And he , of course he 'd taken them the day before . |
5 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
6 | I should have taken you a walk tonight . |
7 | Yeah but they 've tak they 've taken they 've taken it a stage further and er prettied it up and given it another facility . |
8 | It had taken them a while to find the taxi-driver . |
9 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
10 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
11 | It had taken us an hour to walk but had taken the men who drove it thirteen years of drilling and blasting through 748 fathoms of solid rock to build it . |
12 | I have taken it a stage further with the inclusion of many groups usually seen as problematic , linking them with more familiar body plans . |
13 | ‘ The Doctor just was n't at his best when St Jovite murdered him in Ireland and it 's taken him a while to get over that . |
14 | He 's taken it a step further too … producing a microchip that carries the individual voice pattern . |