Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well we 've had it a long time do n't know how long it lasts . |
| 2 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 3 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 4 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
| 5 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 6 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 7 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 8 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 9 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 10 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 11 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 12 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 14 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 15 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 16 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 17 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 18 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 19 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 21 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 22 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 23 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 24 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 25 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 26 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 27 | It took her a long time to negotiate the journey to the small , functional bathroom across the passage , but in the end she accomplished it without incident . |
| 28 | It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered . |
| 29 | It was difficult for her to breathe , and it took her a long time to climb the stairs . |
| 30 | As soon as she 'd gone , Flavia Sherman began to fumble with the buckle of her belt ; but her hands shook uncontrollably and it took her a long time to undress . |