Example sentences of "taken [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Piggotts reached the final in 1979 at their second attempt and it has taken them 13 years to get as close again . |
| 2 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 3 | It had taken them four days to cover the hundred-odd miles and they 'd commanded attention from Larling to Epping . |
| 4 | It had taken them two weeks to break the complex code , but it had been worth it . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can admit this , but I still want you , Jessamy . |
| 6 | It 's taken me four years to get to the point where I can live without you , start to look forward to the future , and you 're not going to take that away from me . |
| 7 | Listen : it 's taken me two years to get this thing done . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 9 | It had however taken me 40 gallons to fly from Duxford down to Stansted and I felt that somehow I was on a loser here ! |
| 10 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 11 | ‘ I mean that it might have taken me some time to see through your ‘ innocent abroad ’ act . |
| 12 | Q I have layered , shoulder-length permed hair and it has taken me some time to grow it to this length . |
| 13 | It 's taken me 24 years to go solo . |
| 14 | It 's taken me twenty years to catch up . |
| 15 | It has taken me seven years to find the right school for my son . |
| 16 | So it has taken me 60 years to finish the book I began in 1933 . |
| 17 | If you think like that , you 'll conquer the world , but it 's taken me ten years to discover it . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah taken you two years to collect it . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 20 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 21 | so anyway he 's he 's engaged and it 's taken him two years to get engaged so it 's gon na take another couple of years to get married . |
| 22 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 23 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 24 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 25 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 26 | The laibon wants it understood that it has taken him some time to trace the trouble back to this incident . |
| 27 | It 's taken him three years to organise the race , and select the crews . |
| 28 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 29 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
| 30 | But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish . |