Example sentences of "that it [verb] take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 4 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 5 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |