Example sentences of "and it take ages " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 2 | And it takes ages to call |
| 3 | mhm And they have to buy everything for you , and it takes ages does n't it . |
| 4 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 5 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |