Example sentences of "take us a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stress on the interdependence of social phenomena , though it may be circular and is not exhaustive , takes us a long way in understanding the basic dynamics of community life . |
| 2 | Much of the work evaluated in this chapter takes us a long way towards identifying mechanisms for triggering the need for investment , screening the proposals and defining them . |
| 3 | But well you know , it seems , that one such attempt has been ruined and rejected by the council , and it may take us a weary while to find a fair agreement and a council sobered enough and sensible enough to abide by it . |
| 4 | If we really fell in love and then never saw one another again , it would take us a long time to get over it and forget . |
| 5 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 6 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 7 | Erm and it 'll take us a little bit of touch actually now the computer evaluated . |
| 8 | Well perhaps because they were more idealist and that now they 're becoming more realist but they 're still erm I mean they 're learning from their past mistakes and they 've seen that right so we have to have a moderate policy which is gon na take us a little bit further towards socialism . |
| 9 | There 's no panacea ; er it will take us a little while to get our programmes in place and to get them producing results . |
| 10 | It took us a good while to get to the location . |
| 11 | It just took us a long time . ’ |
| 12 | And er it took us a long time to get the special material because as you will gather , we tend to do everything properly , so we had to have the a cloth specially woven er handwoven of course and especially dyed and for once we had it especially fooled in other words the nap was raised . |
| 13 | But it took us a long time to actually get to that stage because er , the police are at fault , the police launch these schemes and they go away and say get on with it and off we go |
| 14 | This view of acting behaviour as no more than role function has taken us a long time to understand . |
| 15 | Well we could get the bus to take us a long route . |