Example sentences of "take a [adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there ! |
| 2 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 3 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 4 | The chemicals are water-borne and the timber takes a long time to dry out . |
| 5 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 6 | David Vine : it takes a big man to point out the big men with the big problems |
| 7 | It did n't take a great mind to work out that this was some security conscious area . |
| 8 | The difficulty here is that this would take a long time to carry out , besides which , there is the problem of access . |
| 9 | However , he stressed that economic growth was still heavily dependent on continued flows of external assistance , since the programmes under way would take a long time to carry out . |
| 10 | ‘ This will take a long time to sink in , ’ said Breeze . |
| 11 | Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months . |
| 12 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 13 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 14 | If it was an allergy to soap powder would it take a long time to come out ? |
| 15 | You do take a long time to come out has not reached the non strikers and er , some said he had a little reading from who . |
| 16 | Certain kinds of illness and illness-proneness are experienced : people are more likely to catch a cold or flu , for example , and be less able to shake it off ; they feel generally run down and may suffer from mysterious but more debilitating viruses , such as ME or glandular fever , that are difficult to diagnose and take a long time to clear up . |
| 17 | Cuffs and hem are knitted , and though this does n't suit everyone — the knitting can take a long time to dry out if it gets wet — I do n't find it unacceptable . |
| 18 | It did not take a mathematical genius to work out that — with 59 clauses still to go — this was not brilliant progress . |
| 19 | It would take a mathematical nightmare to go down . |
| 20 | It would take a musical analysis to find out whether the offerings to which these two extremes respond are really worlds apart ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 13 ) , we know that the question implied in the final sentence has already been answered in his own mind , just as surely as we know that he has not done the musical analysis but simply conflated Elvis and … whom ? |
| 21 | Katze had never seen this type of explosive , but it did n't take a scientific genius to work out what the thing was . |
| 22 | Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water . |
| 23 | Those hyacinths in the cauldron are taking a long time to come out are n't they ? |
| 24 | Those hyacinths in the corner are taking a long time to come out , are n't they ? |
| 25 | By taking a four-month period to flatten out the effect of the usually low total in August and the correspondingly high one for September it calculates the increase on the previous four months was four per cent and the year on year growth at 11 per cent . |
| 26 | Back once more in the capital after an uneventful overland journey , Gould took a rare moment to sit down and recount his adventures to the expectant household in Broad Street . |
| 27 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 28 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 29 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 30 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |