Example sentences of "it [verb] [pron] a long " in BNC.
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1 | Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about . |
2 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
3 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
6 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
7 | ‘ You 're at maximum lean angle now with so much grip that when it does step out it throws you a long way . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
10 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
11 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
14 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
15 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
16 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
17 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
18 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | It took me a long time to find . |
23 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
24 | When I cottoned on to that I started to encourage June , sitting her on her own , it took me a long , long time , she is a very sensitive girl . |
25 | ‘ It took me a long , long time before I found a road back to the market town , and the dorf . |
26 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
27 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
28 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
29 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
30 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |