Example sentences of "[pers pn] take a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 2 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 3 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 6 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 7 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 8 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 9 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 10 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 13 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 14 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It takes a long time to warm up , a very long time , but then I sleep as though practising for death . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But it takes a long time to regain trust . |
| 22 | The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want . |
| 23 | Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round . |
| 24 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 25 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ If anyone has been through a traumatic experience , it takes a long time to unwind . |
| 27 | Analysis is a very slow process and it takes a long time to weed through the past and try to discover what things happened to you that affected you . |
| 28 | ‘ When the mortars wake me at night , it takes a long time to go back to sleep . |
| 29 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
| 30 | ‘ There are only one hundred mountain guides in the country at the moment , probably because it takes a long time to qualify and the standards are very high . |