Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 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 | He says , and it 'll cost you a fortune he says , cos it takes some time |
| 5 | The melee was extraordinary , because it took some time for Hunt to realize that he was world champion . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |