Example sentences of "it had taken [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the disastrous moorland fire , it had taken Jonadab a few years to overcome the loss of both stock and crops . |
| 2 | Eva said it had taken to wait a month to get in for a Saturday night . |
| 3 | Which mountains was another question , but they were not so very far from the coast , to judge by how long it had taken to drive here from whatever port they had arrived in . |
| 4 | In the end part of there specific bequest had to be used to pay the balance of bills but there was a complaint about how long it had taken to sort out , and it taken long to sort out because it was a home made will that did n't make all the right provisions . |
| 5 | She still felt aggrieved to think how long it had taken to persuade the police of that simple fact . |
| 6 | In the short time it had taken to procure the services of the constabulary , the situation had steadily worsened at the Harwell inn . |
| 7 | The journey had been rough enough — she had lost the tip of one leg — but the effort it had taken to haul herself up the stairs in the cold hall to the bathroom door had left her almost dead with exhaustion . |
| 8 | She was exhausted by the effort it had taken to keep putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 9 | She had been necessary , but despised , so naturally he had discarded her the moment she was no longer necessary to him , and their single sexual collision was all it had taken to free him . |
| 10 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |