Example sentences of "[pron] a long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
2 | Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in . |
3 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
4 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
5 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
6 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
7 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
8 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
9 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
10 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
11 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It took me a long time to find . |
14 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
15 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
16 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
17 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
23 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
24 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
25 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
26 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
27 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
28 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |