Example sentences of "took [pron] a long time [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 4 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 5 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 6 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 7 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 8 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 9 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 10 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 17 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 18 | It took him a long time to recover . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was difficult for her to breathe , and it took her a long time to climb the stairs . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |