Example sentences of "[pers pn] take a long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened .
2 Immediately after leaving SIS , I took a long holiday in Italy .
3 Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his
4 Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’
5 She took a long drink of her tea and then continued , ‘ Anyway , she 'll go before long , never fear . ’
6 Unused to spicy food , she took a long mouthful of the gin and tonic , which she could now no longer even taste , then very deliberately she finished the chicken wing and ate another one .
7 She took a long time to dress .
8 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 .
9 And she took a long time to answer it .
10 She took a long draw on her cigarette , looking at me curiously .
11 ‘ After seeing the PM you took a long leave and then came back .
12 And you say what we want to hear , or you take a long walk .
13 And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him .
14 And we take a long range view if you 're heading on the motorways this afternoon .
15 Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ?
16 And they took a long time making it .
17 And they took a long time serving it .
18 They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards .
19 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 .
20 Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave .
21 Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it .
22 I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’
23 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
24 Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across .
25 ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone .
26 but you know , it takes a long while to get over it
27 The second — Mr Lawson 's line -that demand is indeed slowing down , but that it takes a long time to affect the balance of payments .
28 It takes a long time to reach Dynjandi , but the weather improves as the day wears on , leaving me with wonderful views across the Arnarfjörđ3ur , its far peaks wreathed in clouds .
29 It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death .
30 It is not fair to expect your local delicatessen to do it for you as it takes a long time to slice the whole ham and Parma must be cut thinly .
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