Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 2 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
| 3 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 4 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 5 | meant to be moving onto the tenth and eleventh floor it only takes them a short time to save time on that or , or cut down on your labour as usual . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 8 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 11 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 14 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 15 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 16 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 17 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 18 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 19 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 27 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 28 | No mechanical indicator can tell you the right time to strike , at least in this situation , but your sense of touch can , once you have enough experience to know what you are feeling for . |
| 29 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 30 | It took him a considerable time to do so but he succeeded and left a deep mark on Korea only equalled or exceeded by his arch-rival , Kim Il Sung in north Korea . |