Example sentences of "[pron] take [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 2 | Immediately after leaving SIS , I took a long holiday in Italy . |
| 3 | I took the long cut home . |
| 4 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 5 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 6 | There seems to be a memory for elaborate patterns and sequences which takes a long time to develop . |
| 7 | So you could just all out in rhyming prose which takes a long time . |
| 8 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 9 | But it is the staging post for the final leg which takes the long distance route to Fort William — and it 's the beginning of another fine walk which , like the Way , skirts the heights of the Mamore range to reach scenic Glen Nevis . |
| 10 | An attempt to establish a ‘ liberal communist ’ regime under Imre Nagy which appeared likely to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was brutally crushed by Soviet tanks in October 1956 , and a new leadership under János Kádár was installed which took a long time to establish any measure of domestic support . |
| 11 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 12 | Some rays , which took a longer time to travel , left the white hole earlier ( when it was smaller ) while others , which took less time to travel , would have left the white hole later ( when it was bigger ) . |
| 13 | I suppose it will come right in the end its taken a long while because look at that lump there |
| 14 | She took a long drink of her tea and then continued , ‘ Anyway , she 'll go before long , never fear . ’ |
| 15 | Unused to spicy food , she took a long mouthful of the gin and tonic , which she could now no longer even taste , then very deliberately she finished the chicken wing and ate another one . |
| 16 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 17 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 18 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 19 | She took a long draw on her cigarette , looking at me curiously . |
| 20 | She took the long way home , and walked slowly . |
| 21 | ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back . |
| 22 | And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | You take the longest bit of candle , but be quick . ’ |
| 26 | He states that businesses with the highest investment intensity have the greatest chance of improving ROI when one takes the longer run into account . |
| 27 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 28 | We took the long way , on the way back to the bus stop |
| 29 | Because everything took a long time to complete , I started to savour occupations which in the past I had regarded as chores to be endured . |
| 30 | And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon . |