Example sentences of "[pron] take a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a little time off in Rome to do some shopping . |
| 2 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 3 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 4 | There seems to be a memory for elaborate patterns and sequences which takes a long time to develop . |
| 5 | So you could just all out in rhyming prose which takes a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 10 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 13 | When she first joined the company , packing vitamins and herbal medicines three years ago , she took a little time to get used to the work . |
| 14 | If you take a little time to pack , your luggage should arrive in one piece with crumple-free contents . |
| 15 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 16 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We take a discrete time model where the individual lives for two periods , working in the first , using savings from the first to provide for retirement , and there are no bequests . |
| 19 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 20 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 21 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 22 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 23 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 24 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 25 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 26 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 29 | Allowed to remain in the cool waters of the pool , they take a considerable time to reappear and fulfil their role , and often fall prey to browsing water snails . |
| 30 | It takes a little time to sec that you 're not moving forward any more , either because you do n't know how or because there is n't anywhere to move forward to . |