Example sentences of "take [art] [adj] [noun] get " in BNC.

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1 Better start walking there now , takes a bleeding hour to get round there !
2 but you know , it takes a long while to get over it
3 No but that takes a long while to get round .
4 That 's something we , we , that 's what we found and one of the things we have got is this youth bus actually operating in the town and it erm , it 's running three nights a week , we ca n't cover every bit of the town , but it goes to different area 's of the town , The Stow , and Old Harlow , I mean we 've actually got quite good relationship 's with , with , with the young people in Old Harlow , but erm , I mean we ca n't cover every night , I mean there is a problem , of erm , you know , you you get from a position where you recognise it , you , you , you need to start catering for a particular group and it takes a long time getting there .
5 Bernie Ecclestone , however , feels guardedly optimistic , ‘ It always takes a long time to get an F1 race up and running in the US , ’ he said .
6 The problem with weight loss is that it takes a long time to get what you want .
7 These days it takes a long time to get into the ‘ left-hand seat ’ or captain 's position in a major airline ; indeed , as time goes on more and more airline pilots have to recognise the possibility of reaching retirement before they achieve command .
8 It takes a long time to get used to it . ’
9 Maybe it takes a long time to get to the phone .
10 Yes erm and er I think in the course of that we will have learned a lot of lessons the er that 's not a facetious comment , it 's true er the the first time you write er a software programme erm and any of you will will have experience of this , it takes a long time to get it right .
11 ‘ Suffolk folk will tell you it takes a long time to get to know them , and I soon found out it 's true .
12 Cos I took Nicky in to see her first because our Nicky 's one of those that erm takes a long time to get to know anybody ?
13 ‘ Our stables are just a few miles away at Bognor and it only takes a short time to get him there .
14 And it takes a crummy gumshoe to get me out of trouble . ’
15 oh I do n't know , I do n't know , I think it will be a while getting rid of it yes , but I think he might get his price eventually , but it will take a long while to get it , it 's up to him if he wants a quick sale , you know , thirty five yeah I , thirty five thousand I think , as I say taking everything into consideration , I mean , failing three okay I know I did the thirty three so take thirty five , thirty three and a half , oh he ai n't got much to worry about
16 But the message that bad behaviour no longer brings rewards will take a long time to get through because of its history of being occasionally ( i.e. intermittently ) reinforced .
17 Even when peace is restored , it will take a long time to get the parks operating normally again .
18 Now there 's two important things , first thing is your notes will take a long time to get up there maybe up to three months .
19 The flight action is superb although it can take a long time to get to grips with all the features of the program .
20 It would take a long time to get our grill out because I do n't think it would move any more .
21 More like a bulletproof tank , someone else said ; it would take an anti-tank missile to get at him .
22 This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) .
23 He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink .
24 Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ?
25 And that took a long time getting used to .
26 Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 .
27 The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not .
28 But many of the boys took a long time to get over their paralysed state .
29 It took a long time to get round to the subject of Silvia and Jeff .
30 Erm it took a long time to get round to it , you know , the , the agreement to the twenty thousand .
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