Example sentences of "take [pers pn] a long [noun] get " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
3 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
4 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 .
5 Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’
6 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 .
7 I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there .
8 " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations .
9 It had taken her a long time to get over that .
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