Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] taken a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would only have taken a word and the simple , undeniable proof . |
| 2 | Could she somehow have taken a wrong turning on the straight , unbranching surface ? |
| 3 | to achieve the immediate objective and thus have taken a significant step towards achieving the overall aim |
| 4 | That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly . |
| 5 | The parent company , perhaps in France or in the USA , will probably have taken a portfolio of beauty pictures when the products were initially launched in their home country . |
| 6 | Her colour 's dreadful ; Anya 's little sleeping draught may have been harmless , but the day and night just past have taken a toll . |
| 7 | Mr O'Connor said the campaign so far had taken a lot of time and effort , with mixed results . |
| 8 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 9 | It is just past three in the morning , and the journey here has taken a little over three hours . |
| 10 | The disentangling of ancient mergers that we observe here has taken a very long time , and the best explanation for the persistence of this alternating class is again a social explanation : the ‘ vernacular ’ alternant carries an identity function and strong connotations of closeness and intimacy . |
| 11 | Suppose he suggests that the Incarnation might just as well have taken a female as a male form , and the Second Person of the Trinity be as well called the Daughter as the Son … . |
| 12 | You should n't have taken a final reading until you left . |
| 13 | Connie 's family moved to here in 1914 , and ever since then have taken a particular interest in the third-of-an-acre garden which has always been maintained in a traditional cottage garden style . |
| 14 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 15 | That too had taken a little getting used to . |