Example sentences of "have taken a [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . I hardly dare say this in this context , but if we well now the Council has taken a decision to close this elderly person 's home , there is actually a logic to it , which I 'd like to talk about . |
| 2 | Another journal has taken a year to respond on more than one occasion . |
| 3 | It has taken a woman to remind us all that there are people out there who are determined that Northern Ireland will not be dragged down to the level of barbarity displayed by the terrorists . |
| 4 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 5 | It would have taken a battalion to root the fanatics out , and the casualties would have been horrendous . |
| 6 | She must have taken a knife to push the cord through , she said , there was hardly any room for it . |
| 7 | In the night they had moved , so that now she lay with her arm about his waist , her body pressed so tightly against his back that it would have taken a can-opener to prise them apart . |
| 8 | I paid £12.10s. for it , which had taken a year to save . |
| 9 | Senior officer Robert Ambler said the journey to Tiju , in Romania , had taken a year to prepare and followed a successful trip by three officers . |
| 10 | The paper had taken a day to produce . |
| 11 | The tiles had taken a month to arrive , and if a replacement batch was required it would mean her hanging fire on the commission for another four weeks . |
| 12 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 13 | It had taken a war to do that , Vi realized ; though she would n't mind betting that on the day peace came , all the caring would end and people would go back to minding their own business again , just as they had before it started . |
| 14 | ‘ It would be hard on people like Peter Winterbottom but they have taken a decision to go to London and there 's no room any more for sentiment . ’ |
| 15 | We establish order and think we are in control ; then Nu throws over the table and breaks what we have taken a lifetime to construct . |
| 16 | It 's taken a year to get it all . |