Example sentences of "had taken [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had taken her all this time to put her life back together , and now it looked as if it might be turned completely upside down again , and all because of Julius ! |
| 2 | She felt her contribution to the discussion had been negligible ; it had taken her all her patience just to keep her temper . |
| 3 | On a week 's package holiday at the time , the first break she had been able to afford since leaving drama school , it had taken her all of five minutes to make up her mind to stay . |
| 4 | Only Anthea 's insistence had brought him to her room , where matters had taken their own turn . |
| 5 | The study found twenty-one students had taken their own lives over a fourteen year period , and more than two hundred and fifty others attempted suicide.Simon Garrett reports . |
| 6 | For that day 's class she had taken her own watercolours , bought with the Visacard in Reading … |
| 7 | If Marek was right , Tatyana had taken her own life less as a result of the news of the murder Blanche had brought , than of her son 's dreadful confession . |
| 8 | True , it had taken her several minutes to decide whether the keys should be bunched or splayed but she had ceased fidgeting with them and settled into an abnormal quietude . |
| 9 | The tension and frustration that had built up in the claustrophobic atmosphere of their life in Northumberland had finally spilt over when Louise had taken them both to the West End to buy the birthday dress . |
| 10 | Why it had taken him all day to travel thirty odd miles was not explained . |
| 11 | Petiver also bequeathed his own collection to Sloane and it had taken him many years to bring all this material into an orderly array . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And a slight slip you know , had taken him half a thou over the bore . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 16 | If he had taken his own rule seriously , he would have found out that DRG has a very modest self-service canteen at its Bristol head office . |
| 17 | Then more words about his own father who had taken his own life , then retracting words , self-hating words , words weaving webs around his own egotism , then words that made no sense to the listener , words he himself was unaware of uttering as the tears wiped out reason . |
| 18 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 19 | He fought for a while , hence the strands of cord found under the finger nails , but he was murdered and left there to hang so others would think he had taken his own life . ’ |
| 20 | When you say a wife , you mean Mrs there was n't any suggestion that Lawrence had taken his own wife ? |
| 21 | She had taken it all for granted for so long , her creature comforts had been assured and she had not given a moment 's thought to how they were provided . |