Example sentences of "would [verb] [pron] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take him a long time then would n't it ? |
| 2 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
| 3 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 4 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 5 | You see the i it was er we used to make curtains then for Littlewoods , Littlewoods as it is now , they 're still , you know , the they were about the forerunners of the er tt this er catalogue business , and if they gave us an order that would last us a long time , and that usually the eight points , which was meant to say there were eight threads to an inch . |