Example sentences of "[pers pn] a long [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long .
2 Yes , I was just going to say you can do that with , like if you go , it takes you a long time to do it with prospects , they know you over the years , so you can just walk in .
3 Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’
4 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
5 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
6 It took me a long while to pay it off .
7 got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it
8 ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean .
9 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
10 That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’
11 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
12 Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot .
13 It took me a long time to find .
14 I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words .
15 It may have taken me a long time to find out about him .
16 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
17 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
18 It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them .
19 It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it .
20 It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors .
21 It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like .
22 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
23 ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
24 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
25 I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there .
26 " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations .
27 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
28 However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles .
29 THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad .
30 it took them a long time to begin with when he started .
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