Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] take [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up . |
| 2 | Although she had had a shower before going to the boat , she decided to take a long bath . |
| 3 | Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we 'd taken a long time to get here . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed to take a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It did take a long time for anything to happen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He paused to take a long draught of his own coffee . |