Example sentences of "[art] long time get " in BNC.
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| 1 | You always find wherever you are that the people who 've been there a long time get sort of erm a bit uppity , they think that they 're |
| 2 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 3 | ‘ It has taken a long time getting Australian rugby to the top and we are n't about to throw that away in one game , ’ he added . |
| 4 | That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there . |
| 5 | After all , Jones spent a long time getting the wording right , and you wo n't be able to improve on it . |
| 6 | I know it sounds thin , sir , but I spent a long time getting no further than that and I do n't think we shall do better until we have an angle — some sort of leverage . ’ |
| 7 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 8 | On the morning of the day when Therese Aschmann was due to arrive in Hochhauser , Willi spent a long time getting ready before he went to meet her at the station . |
| 9 | " The police are a long time getting here , " he said . |
| 10 | Being directly overhead , the field is one of the worst positions from which to extricate yourself because you have to fly blind , away from the field , for quite a long time to get out to the side for a reasonable base leg . |
| 11 | Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 13 | But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced . |
| 14 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 15 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 16 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 17 | It has taken a long time to get justice but the compensation will give financial security to my family and give us sufficient breathing space to try and rebuild our lives . |
| 18 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 19 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 20 | By this time we feel as if we are Hemingway 's companion , hauling out the bodies one by one , so that when he says ‘ Well you waited a long time to get sick brother . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Even when peace is restored , it will take a long time to get the parks operating normally again . |
| 23 | ‘ I have been waiting for a long time to get my hands on this one ’ , a review of Nicolson by Kingsley Amis began . |
| 24 | These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command . |
| 25 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 26 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 27 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |
| 28 | And I was a bit late , so I had to wait a long time to get served . ’ |
| 29 | It took me quite a long time to get over it . |
| 30 | But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state . |