Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it made a long garage . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 6 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |
| 7 | But it seemed a long time . |
| 8 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 14 | I got a job eventually , but it took a long time . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 17 | 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 |