Example sentences of "[pron] took [art] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Which took a long time to recover from . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 13 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 14 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 17 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 18 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 19 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 20 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 21 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 22 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 23 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 24 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 25 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 26 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 27 | The Chinese also knew another archaic type of water-clock , a floating bowl with a hole in its base that was adjusted so that it took a specific time to sink . |
| 28 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 29 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 30 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |