Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] take [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 2 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 3 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Well the only thing is that I hope that the next generation that is coming along now will appreciate what has been done for their generation because it took a long time for us to get what we wanted for our children and now with our grandchildren are coming along I hope the town will improve with their growth . |
| 8 | 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 . |