Example sentences of "it [vb past] taken a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Renewing the emphasis on the unit 's original raison d'etre created by Lord Rayner , the Prime Minister 's first efficiency adviser — the scrutiny programme of efficiency studies — was necessary , Sir Angus said , as ‘ it had taken a bit of a setback ’ . |
| 2 | It had taken a year and a half to find out , but now — at last — I was sure . |
| 3 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |
| 4 | It had taken a score of masons a score of years to hammer the pitons for all those , hanging from their work as they progressed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As her mother was fond of saying — it had taken a lot of trouble to get her this far , and this last little step was going to take a deal of organizing as well . |
| 7 | It was , she realised with astonishment , his version of an apology , and she had a feeling that it had taken a lot out of him to say it . |
| 8 | 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 . |