Example sentences of "take a long [noun] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 2 | Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone . |
| 3 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 4 | The difference is that your body takes a long time to react to the tetanus antitoxin Sorry , to the tetanus vaccine , to make antibodies against it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | There 's a saying in Scotland ‘ It takes a long spuin to sup wi' a Fifer ’ . |
| 7 | Fan assisted cabinets have a very rapid recovery following an air change , whereas plate evaporator designs can take a long time to return to the correct storage temperature . |
| 8 | The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program . |
| 9 | Many French dishes are basically simple but may take a long time to prepare in the traditional way . |
| 10 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 11 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 12 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 13 | The College in Coleman 's reign took a long time to recover from the difficulties of its early days . |
| 14 | Hong Kong-born Candice , who is of Oriental appearance , took a long time to recover from her ordeal . |
| 15 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 16 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 17 | Sims took a long time to think about answering that . |
| 18 | It took a long time to adjust after discovering the baby was a girl . ’ |
| 19 | Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 21 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 22 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 23 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 24 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |