Example sentences of "[pron] had take [art] long " in BNC.

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1 I had to take a long , hard look at him before I was sure .
2 According to Sutton , Pilger made him cancel interviews which had taken a long time to set up .
3 In her agitation she had taken the longer route on to the Quay de Cologny .
4 Phil Tufnell celebrates the return catch which disposed of New Zealand 's Dipak Patel , who had taken the long handle to the left-arm spinner in the previous Test
5 Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) .
6 It had taken a long while , Harry thought as he glanced fondly at Cora-Beth , before he had got over Madeleine 's rejection of him and the shock of her marriage to Dunbar .
7 It had taken a long time for the initial hostility and suspicion between them to wear off .
8 Then , there was a description of the child 's functioning : he had taken a long time to settle into school , e.g. routine and order of the class .
9 He had taken a longer walk than he intended and by the time he returned to the coast road at Newlyn it was quite dark .
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