Example sentences of "[pron] take [pron] a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war .
2 I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words .
3 got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it
4 It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long .
5 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 .
6 How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ?
7 It took me a long while to pay it off .
8 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
9 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
10 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
11 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 .
12 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
13 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
14 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 .
15 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
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 even to begin to look at what I was going through .
19 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
20 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 .
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 find .
23 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
24 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
25 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
26 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
27 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
28 One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction .
29 It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered .
30 It was difficult for her to breathe , and it took her a long time to climb the stairs .
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