Example sentences of "[verb] [art] long [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 2 | However , we 've still got a long way to go on working together with the health service ’ . |
| 3 | McCarthy 's mistake came in the 76th minute when he allowed a long ball to go over his head , and Guy Whittingham nipped in for the equaliser . |
| 4 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 5 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 6 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 7 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 8 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 9 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 10 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 11 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 12 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 13 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 14 | If it was an allergy to soap powder would it take a long time to come out ? |
| 15 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 16 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 17 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 18 | She felt constrained to sit and light-headed when she rose and crossed the long boards to fold back the shutters and open the windows wide . |
| 19 | Those hyacinths in the cauldron are taking a long time to come out are n't they ? |
| 20 | Those hyacinths in the corner are taking a long time to come out , are n't they ? |
| 21 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 22 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 23 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 24 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 25 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 26 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |
| 27 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 28 | Doubtless Mr Pickard was pleased to have the support of the medical men of the town — a great fillip to his trade — though it is questionable whether he would have received like acclamation from the superintendent of Lichfield Cemetery , for iron coffins , as well as lead shells , took a long time to break down if deposited in the soil . |
| 29 | The Geometricks styler took a long time to heat up . |
| 30 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |