Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 3 | Food photography is all about presentation and it takes a long time , which is why we have a new home economist on the team . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 6 | And it made a long garage . |
| 7 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 8 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 9 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 10 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 11 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 12 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |
| 13 | The building is an exciting example of 1909 — lo Art Deco , using a wide range of materials including brick , and it has a long glass gallery at roof level . |
| 14 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 15 | But it takes no long reflexion to see that , in this case , if the interrogative is acceptable , then it asks for a straightforward manner adverbial or its equivalent as an answer , and it is not directly related to the sentences in ( 33 ) . |
| 16 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 17 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 18 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 19 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 20 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 21 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 22 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 23 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
| 24 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 25 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 26 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 27 | It 's probably only a you know a matter of seconds but it seems a long time . |
| 28 | The nation-state is inevitably becoming weaker as power goes both up to Europe and down to regions and districts , but it has a long life yet , and the British people have many uses for it . |