Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] take a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As soon as my work here is finished ’ , he wrote to Constanze , ‘ I shall join you , for I intend to take a long rest in your arms ; and I shall really need it , for all this mental worry and all the rushing about in connection with it is really wearing me out … . ’ |
| 2 | I have taken a long look at local government finance . |
| 3 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 4 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 5 | The transactions , some of which have taken a long time to unravel , include guarantees on property leases and interest rate swaps . |
| 6 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 9 | No , I , I gather he has taken a long weekend , I do n't know where he 's whisked himself off to , but I 'm afraid I wo n't be here , er next week , I do n't know , quite know who will be , but er , Dominic 's taking er , a well needed rest . |
| 10 | It has taken a long time to reduce the effects of that defect but it is now under control . |
| 11 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 12 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 13 | Surprisingly , it has taken a long time to arrange something that most would have considered to be basic . |
| 14 | It has taken a long time for such unashamed aspiration to reach these shores , yet now , that mentality which is increasingly being demanded by the British in pursuance of their leisure activities , has finally arrived . |
| 15 | It has taken a long time for those engaged in mainstream adult education to attribute any significance to the Women 's Movement . |
| 16 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 17 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 18 | It seemed to take a long time to reach the end of the wall and I was about to turn right towards the door of the farm kitchen when from my left I heard the sudden rattle of a chain then a roaring creature launched itself at me , bayed once , mightily , into my face and was gone . |
| 19 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 20 | It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar . |
| 21 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 22 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 23 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 24 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 25 | It does take a long while does n't it ? |
| 26 | The way in which forests are disappearing , land is becoming desert , erm food is not being grown in areas where it used to be grown , those are disasters , but what we 're talking about is the , the rather more sudden event which , which you know reaches a crescendo , even if it does take a long time to develop , like a famine , nevertheless the disaster is considered to be that point when perhaps thousands of people are in very desperate need of food . |
| 27 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |
| 28 | Some of you er you know it 's taken a long time to get this message over . |