Example sentences of "it [vb past] taken [art] " 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 | Joshua , seven , landed the pike following a five minute fight after it had taken a dead dace to 15 lb line . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 261 Squadron was indeed tired — it had taken a terrible beating from Müncheberg and his men . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Far Eastern trader Inchcape Plc yesterday announced that it had taken a 15.3% stake in Gestetner Holdings Plc , the world 's largest independent photocopier dealer , with the support of 29.5% shareholder Ricoh Co Ltd . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It had taken a year and a half to find out , but now — at last — I was sure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lord Hulton had only about thirty suckling cows but it had taken a three-hour rodeo to test them . |
| 15 | It had taken a full day for Merymose to obtain permission for Huy to visit the embalmer . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had taken a few days to persuade her ladyship to accept change , for she had for so long been used to living in squalor that she could not at first accustom herself to an altered way of life . |
| 20 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 21 | It had taken a hundred firemen from three counties to bring the blaze under control , and it destroyed half the British armed forces stock of parachutes.Senior Aircraftman Douglas Bailey had drunk the equivalent of seventeen pints of beer . |
| 22 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |
| 23 | No other man had ever managed even to light a spark within her , yet he had set her body aflame , and it had taken every ounce of will-power she possessed not to give in to the longing he 'd unleashed . |
| 24 | It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience . |
| 25 | Thinking it had taken the old baggage long enough to show some concern , and it would take more than a few mumbled words to alter things . |
| 26 | It had taken the last half-hour to muster the courage to mention the subject yet again . |
| 27 | The Waltham Forest CHC not only was in disagreement with Mezey but also questioned the length of time it had taken the RHA to make time for a discussion of the report ( one year ) . |
| 28 | A month earlier , it had taken the helicopter two trips to establish our camp here by Lake Rangkul at 13,000 feet . |
| 29 | Ellwood wondered how the search for Tessa was going and how long it had taken the Department to close the story down . |
| 30 | At first only crudely aware of what its new body needed to survive , it had taken the man crudely . |