Example sentences of "it [vb past] a long [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 4 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 5 | It took a long time to open it and when he drank , it tasted warm against his mouth , as if it had been in the sun ; only there was no sun , not even at fifteen thousand . |
| 6 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 9 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 10 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 11 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 12 | It took a long time to focus and get rid of the swimming water . |
| 13 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 14 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 15 | It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff . |
| 16 | Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand . |
| 17 | It took a long time to adjust after discovering the baby was a girl . ’ |