Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] a long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 2 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 3 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 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 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 10 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 11 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 12 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 13 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 16 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 17 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 18 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 19 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 21 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 22 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 29 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 30 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |