Example sentences of "it had taken a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 2 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 3 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 4 | Word of total closure came just one week after the society had revealed that it had taken a controversial first step toward meeting its operating costs with a loan of $1.5 million from Sotheby 's secured by $3.5 million worth of works from its vast collections . |
| 5 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
| 6 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 7 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 8 | It had taken a bad beating from the RAF and been widely rebuilt , much of it as copies of the original high-pitched medieval buildings . |
| 9 | Nor was Lotus a negligible factor : it had taken a severe dip in I975 , but anyone knowing Chapman had to know that Lotus declines were generally followed by Lotus ascensions ; with Andretti and Peterson driving against him , Hunt was starting the season in a star-studded field . |
| 10 | In some regions the transformation had taken place much earlier , as in Kent , or Essex , or Devon , where it had taken a different form altogether , and most of the fields had been reclaimed direct from forest and moorland without passing through the open-field stage at all , or had been enclosed from open field at an early date . |
| 11 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |