Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] long time [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 2 | The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate . |
| 3 | The box and pyrotechnics take a long time to set up , so we ca n't rehearse and have to hope it will be all right on the night . |
| 4 | As you now from your own experience , such events take a long time to plan , and the hope is that it will all come together on the day ! |
| 5 | Also the carbs on the SD1 V8 engine take a long time to return to idle when you take your foot off the throttle . |
| 6 | But the wounds inflicted by the media will , it appears , take a long time to heal . |
| 7 | It was September , when the days take a long time to wake up and the green of the trees is brushed with gold . |
| 8 | But some memories take a long time to go … especially when they 're being preserved by Historical enthusiasts . |
| 9 | Single gas instantaneous water heaters have their place alongside a storage system ; the main problem with relying on a gas multi-point heater to provide all the house 's hot water is the low flow rate which means baths take a long time to fill . |
| 10 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 11 | For one thing they are not really cultivated , mostly because the trees take a long time to bear fruit and even then are not very prolific . |
| 12 | We have asked to do so , but changes take a long time to come into effect . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | The reason why some people take a long time to learn the Technique is because it is much simpler than they think . |
| 15 | We are committed to putting money and people into the sort of programmes that take a long time to make . |
| 16 | It is towards high definition programs that take a long time to write . |
| 17 | But he knows that new formats take a long time to catch on with the public : ‘ We have n't got expectations of hundreds of thousands of units . |
| 18 | We often take a long time to hear of what is going on in the outside world and when we do find out , it can take even longer to get into the field . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it 's a waste of time growing vegetables such as sprouts and cabbages that take a long time to grow and are cheap in the shops , but I enjoy growing beans , carrots and marrows . |
| 20 | Like asparagus , I take a long time to grow and am easily killed off . ’ |
| 21 | Soilless composts will do very well as they are , keeping them slightly on the dry side , but be very careful , as such composts take a long time to dry out but then do so completely with alarming rapidity , and are exceedingly difficult to wet through to the centre of the root-ball . |
| 22 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 23 | Very good very good now a lot of people take a long time to get that . |
| 24 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |
| 25 | I spend a long time thinking about Marie and some of the things we done together . |
| 26 | I suggest you spend a long time thinking about what you really want . ’ |
| 27 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |