Example sentences of "it had take [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It had taken 10 years for the states definitely to decide where they stood on the question of integration or association . |
2 | It had taken small effort for the cop to lead her on . |
3 | It had taken many years to achieve the control she had acquired over her conscious mind . |
4 | It had taken two hours . |
5 | Is the Minister aware that on 10 December the National Rivers Authority told me , by letter , that it had taken two samples from the river — above the Coalite plant and below — and that the sample from the river above the plant showed a low level of dioxin , the one below the plant showed considerably higher levels of dioxin and that it is now certain that the dioxin is coming from the Coalite plant ? |
6 | However , Mr Everett said , it had taken two months to obtain the Giro for Emma . |
7 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
8 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
9 | It had taken six telephone calls and much going to and fro before Peter and Susie finally arrived for their first counselling appointment . |
10 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
11 | It had taken six years of incredibly hard work , masses of courage and a measure of despair , but she 'd done it ! |
12 | It had taken twenty-two years of hell to realise that their war was nothing to do with her , and that peacemakers got torn to pieces . |
13 | And then , when he was about eighteen , reality of another kind intruded itself and he said aloud , ‘ I did n't do it for Alice , I did it for myself ’ , and thought how extraordinary it was that it had taken four years to discover that fact . |
14 | But it had taken four years from the completion of that review for a decision to be made on the future of the RHA 's six asylums . |
15 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
16 | It had taken three cars to get the ten miles from the city to the airport ; Georgians get uncharacteristically ruthless about transport in times of war , when petrol is scarce . |
17 | Would Mr and Mrs Husayn get a chance to study MY HOLIDAYS by M. and N. Husayn , a hundred-word masterpiece that it had taken three months to squeeze out of them ? |
18 | It had taken three years for the committee , under the chairmanship of Lord Kilbrandon , to gather and consider evidence from a large number of bodies already dealing with child offenders and child neglect . |
19 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
20 | Using the old gantries , it had taken 20 years to paint the centre span . |
21 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
22 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
23 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
24 | But it had taken bad ways and , by the time he 'd agreed to see the doctor , it was too late . |