Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [art] long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 2 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 3 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 4 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 5 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 6 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 7 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 8 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 9 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 10 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 11 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 12 | It takes a long time to visit every house in the neighbourhood — and enjoy some hospitality while one is there . ’ |
| 13 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 14 | It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds . |
| 15 | If the property does not sell at all , or if it takes a long time to sell , the local authority search result may become dated . |
| 16 | The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments . |
| 17 | Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round . |
| 18 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 19 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 20 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 21 | It takes a long time to get used to it . ’ |
| 22 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 23 | Yes erm and er I think in the course of that we will have learned a lot of lessons the er that 's not a facetious comment , it 's true er the the first time you write er a software programme erm and any of you will will have experience of this , it takes a long time to get it right . |
| 24 | ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true . |
| 25 | The people are generally friendly but shy and it takes a long time to gain their confidence to the point where they will teach a visiting scientist the secrets of their art . |
| 26 | If you want decent trees it takes a long time to grow them ! |
| 27 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
| 28 | ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high . |
| 29 | It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ If anyone has been through a traumatic experience , it takes a long time to unwind . |