Example sentences of "take [pron] a long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
2 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
3 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
4 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
5 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
8 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
9 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
10 | It took me a long time to find . |
11 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
12 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
13 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
14 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
15 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
16 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
17 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
18 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
19 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
20 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
21 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
22 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
23 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
24 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
25 | It took him a long time to recover . |
26 | It took her a long time to negotiate the journey to the small , functional bathroom across the passage , but in the end she accomplished it without incident . |
27 | It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered . |
28 | It was difficult for her to breathe , and it took her a long time to climb the stairs . |
29 | As soon as she 'd gone , Flavia Sherman began to fumble with the buckle of her belt ; but her hands shook uncontrollably and it took her a long time to undress . |
30 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |