Example sentences of "it [vb past] take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to take him an age to remember . |
| 2 | Sadler , however , although being keen to identify and chart the existence of air currents , had to be content to place his trust in the wind and fly wherever it chose to take him . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 5 | Mungo had been so unnerved by the feather and the peculiar note that it had taken him several moments to decide on the next move ; not the next major move in his life , but literally the act of moving an arm or a leg . |
| 6 | He said he was sorry , but it had taken him 10 days to walk here . ’ |
| 7 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 8 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 9 | Left under-equipped by the Martini , it had taken him too long to realise that copper vats were not now to be had ; that all the pottery stores had somehow been requisitioned ; that skilled men had been seduced away to serve elsewhere . |
| 10 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 11 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 12 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 13 | When asked why it had taken him so long to change his view of IBM , Joseph Payne at Alex Brown & Sons said abruptly that he had to take another call and promised to call back later . |
| 14 | It had taken him only half-an-hour to reach the heralded target figure , and it was poetic justice that Graham Gooch was his partner at the time . |
| 15 | I was amazed it had taken him so long . |
| 16 | First he reminded us that it had taken him no time at all to find the Ardakkean thief — an off-world technician working in one of the phetam refining plants . |
| 17 | It had taken him a long time to adjust himself to this , but now it no longer irritated him , and he felt only pity for his wife . |
| 18 | It had taken him and the woman two hundred days — as they measured them — to work out and play the game . |
| 19 | It had taken him half an hour to get his hands and nails clean , using white spirit and a nailbrush as well as soap and water . |
| 20 | How was it that it had taken him so long to see Parry 's daughter thus clearly ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ No telephone calls accepted for residents — ’ I wondered how long it had taken him to break the habit of saying ‘ inmates ’ — ‘ during luncheon . ’ |
| 23 | It had taken him two days to get a seat on the Paris Express from Madrid . |
| 24 | No one else was sure if they agreed , but they did know it had taken him nearly half an hour to get through , and the conversation had been brief . |
| 25 | Ken Stevens loved both his girls and Rachel knew it had taken him a long time to come to terms with Jennifer 's illness ; she doubted he would ever forgive David Markham for walking out on her at such a crucial time . |