Example sentences of "it had not taken " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not taken long for her to realise that it was not worth the risk of her position and Stephen 's love . |
| 2 | It had not taken her long to discover the team 's skills ran to more than mere mountaineering . |
| 3 | It had not taken her long . |
| 4 | Away from Stroudwater the industry seems rather to have remained in the hands of independent craftsmen : in eight places where cloth was made , the structure of wealth resembled what was commonly found in parts where it had not taken root , with perhaps three of the four £100 men belonging to the gentry . |
| 5 | It had not taken her long to realise that here was a vindictive old villain , bent on making her life as miserable as he possibly could . |
| 6 | The Gann Report received qualified approval from the colleges , though in many quarters regret was expressed that it had not taken the opportunity to recommend a single validating body for all courses in art and design , and not just non-advanced ones , and that its proposal for two different types of courses was ‘ elitist ’ and a vain attempt to separate the sheep from the goats . |
| 7 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 8 | It had not taken him long , Ashley thought wryly . |
| 9 | It had n't taken her long to discover that they had nothing whatsoever in common . |
| 10 | It had n't taken Sid long to dispose of the monster . |
| 11 | It had n't taken them long , but she knew instinctively as they hurried into the hollow gloom of the station that they had missed yet another train . |
| 12 | With bored businessmen and other visitors , it had n't taken the authorities long to realize that gambling was an important source of foreign currency . |
| 13 | It had n't taken long to determine that the plane had been sabotaged . |
| 14 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 15 | It had n't taken Benedicta long to realize that it would be sheer cruelty to keep the marquis 's protégée penned within the confines of the convent . |
| 16 | Angelica reckoned that she was a reasonable judge of people — one could hardly be a nurse for twenty years without picking up one hell of a lot of insight — and it had n't taken her long to decide that Alina Peterson was either dead straight or very plausible . |
| 17 | Perhaps , but it had n't taken her long to work out what the boy really was . |
| 18 | The sea had gone out , his father shouted , but it had n't taken her with it because she had n't wanted to go . |
| 19 | It had n't taken Roman long to transfer his attention to Dana , had it ? |
| 20 | It had n't taken long to make a fool of herself . |
| 21 | It had n't taken her long to clear out her room at the nurses ' home this morning , and her father had come over at lunch to take several boxes of things back to his suburban home for storage . |
| 22 | Well , it had n't taken him long to show his true colours ! |
| 23 | It had n't taken much to disturb the woman-of-the-world pose . |
| 24 | ‘ The Government was wrong because it had n't taken into account the huge increases in our workload since new contracts were introduced encouraging people to register , ’ Mr Smith said . |