Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 31 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 32 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 33 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 34 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 35 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 36 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |