Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] take [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 2 | When they were not , they switched to cockles ( although it took some time for them to learn the technique of shell penetration ) . |
| 3 | Blood heat should be the highest temperature for a smooth glossy result , although it takes more time to melt . |
| 4 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 5 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 6 | Therefore we want to think ahead to future access to the information in the Journals , and the price is that it takes more time now . |
| 7 | We do not know how this activated state is subsequently maintained throughout the healing process , although the final overrun and pile-up suggest that it takes some time to switch off . |
| 8 | A lot of my work includes routing grooves for 5/8in and 3/4in boards , and it takes some time achieving the right width of groove even with the appropriate cutter . |
| 9 | Experience of objects is mediated by the senses , and it takes some time before the child appreciates that objects are best understood not as functions of action and sensation , but as entities which have an existence that is independent of the child 's own actions and experiences . |
| 10 | I am aware , when I go on publicity tours , that the necessity to project yourself , to sell your product , all the time , moves you into the outward and trivial parts of your personality , and it takes some time to get back to being centred , and to finding who you are again within yourself . ’ |
| 11 | The colon is unused to the fibre and it takes some time to adjust . ’ |
| 12 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 13 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 14 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 15 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
| 16 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 17 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 18 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 19 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 20 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 21 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 22 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 23 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |