Example sentences of "[pron] take [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 2 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 3 | thank you , now we 're going to bind this up , you take the long edge , sorry that goes down the long edge comes first of all over the two fingers and round the base of the thumb |
| 4 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 5 | And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon . |
| 6 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 7 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 8 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 9 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 10 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 11 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |