Example sentences of "it [was/were] take [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne often felt that she could have taught a topic to the whole class in a fraction of the time it was taking them to find it out for themselves . |
| 2 | She stared out of the window and thought she could write a book in the time it was taking them to get to Nice , which really was just around the corner . |
| 3 | But on this particular morning it was taking him longer than usual to kindle the cheeky spark that had always singled him out from the rest . |
| 4 | Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright . |
| 5 | But I mean when you think how long it was taking us taking a blank one of , and I know the |
| 6 | The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away . |
| 7 | It was taking us twenty-five minutes to cross the room . |
| 8 | He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off . |
| 9 | It was to take me some time longer to undergo the metamorphosis from a ‘ teacher ’ to a ‘ lecturer ’ . |
| 10 | When the ideas of the French Revolution concerning the rights of nations to self-government reached the Slovenes , they already had many of the attributes of a modern nation , but it was to take them over a century to achieve a form of self-determination within the wider Yugoslav state . |