Example sentences of "take [pron] a long time [verb] " 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 .
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