Example sentences of "it had taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken £50,000 to bring Bobby back to the Palace from Leicester , but it was money well spent , for his presence was regarded by many as one of the major factors in Palace 's 1972 survival — and we recouped f 12,000 of it when Bobby bustled off to join Pompey just after Christmas . |
| 2 | It had taken hold of Jesus and turned his spirit into a system . |
| 3 | Two years later , the Palais Wilson , the former League of Nations building in which it had taken space , was destroyed by fire . |
| 4 | It had taken Miro nine months of eight-hour working days . |
| 5 | It had taken Duroc at least three quarters of an hour to get through the Holderness-Manolo security system . |
| 6 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 7 | It had taken Christina a long time to grow accustomed to the nocturnal sounds of the tropics , but she loved them now , and finally fell into a deep sleep , lulled by the incessant chirping of crickets , wind rustling the huge traveller 's palm outside the bedroom window , and the Caribbean sea breaking gently on the shore . |
| 8 | Kenjayev resigned both as Chair of the Supreme Soviet and as Presidium member on April 22 on the release by the opposition of 16 deputies and two deputy ministers whom it had taken hostage on April 21 ( having issued an ultimatum ) ; they were released when they agreed to press for Kenjayev 's resignation . |
| 9 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 10 | It was less than a year ago , though it seemed far longer , that they had kept each other company at Ockham House during the long bleak hours it had taken Mary Ladram to die . |
| 11 | It had taken pain and misery to tell her what she had not learned from happiness — that she was in love with Tom Russell . |
| 12 | He said it had taken years . |
| 13 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 14 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 15 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |
| 16 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 17 | It had taken time but her written French as well as her spoken was now first class . |
| 18 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 19 | The British Government retained most of the cash , insisting it had taken Rechar allocations into account when determining local authority and development agency budgets . |
| 20 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 21 | It had taken weeks to sort things out . |
| 22 | They were showing a film , The Life of Christ , and though this was clearly an illusion as well it had taken place in real life , and uncle was very much a believer . |
| 23 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 24 | Because it had taken place so long ago and was one of those things which could happen to anyone , she was quite unconcerned about the accident itself . |
| 25 | ‘ If it had taken place in London or New York I would have simply bawled at him to get lost . |
| 26 | What concerned him was not the brutality but the fact that it had taken place while the Corporals were drunk . |
| 27 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 28 | The importance of the summit was , above all , that it had taken place , and that the two leaders had been pictured together in amicable fireside discussion . |
| 29 | It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions . |
| 30 | For Williams , emancipation had taken place from above but , for James , it had taken place from below . |