Example sentences of "it take ages " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ai n't far back to the house , but it takes ages cos we got to walk slow . |
| 2 | It takes ages because the garment has to be done in sections — it 's much easier if the shapes are all the same size . ’ |
| 3 | A My hair is so thick , it 's a hairdresser 's nightmare — it takes ages to cut and blow-dry . |
| 4 | Try running cold water into a hot bath — unless you stir it up , it takes ages to mix . |
| 5 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 6 | But it 's given you a spreadsheet it takes ages to load it |
| 7 | It takes ages to get over operations . ’ |
| 8 | that electrolysis , that 's the best way but it takes ages . |
| 9 | It takes ages ! |
| 10 | No , it takes ages down there |
| 11 | The trouble with strawberry moose is , it takes ages to make does n't it ? |
| 12 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
| 13 | And it takes ages to call |
| 14 | wo n't it takes ages |
| 15 | It takes ages . |
| 16 | mhm And they have to buy everything for you , and it takes ages does n't it . |
| 17 | Cos it it takes ages . |
| 18 | It took ages to dawn on me that I had to find something else to do with my time other than music . |
| 19 | ‘ It took ages to come out and we had no control over the artwork . |
| 20 | It took ages to believe that she was actually here . |
| 21 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 22 | It took ages to cross the line with the Pegasus players frozen in disbelief . |
| 23 | But fortunately the traffic was heavy and it took ages to reach Bethnal Green . |
| 24 | ‘ It took ages to cross the line , but overall I thought we deserved to win for our battling spirit , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It took ages before he twigged . |
| 26 | It took ages . |
| 27 | You know , it took ages to digest ! |
| 28 | big one and it took ages to dry off , yeah . |
| 29 | Because obviously you could do this by hand , you could do it by it took ages and could be very boring . |
| 30 | It took ages for me to be able to get a |