Example sentences of "took a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 2 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 3 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 4 | He 's a fabulous guy and very funny , but it took a long time , and I do n't take credit for it , but it took a long time to put him in a situation where I felt that he was at maximum ‘ comfortableness ’ , so that his shyness — and he was very shy — was overcome . |
| 5 | She agrees with Gnome Pfeiffer ( coauthor of The Experience of Infertility , Virago ) that feminists took a long time to put infertility on the political agenda , and she suggests that this is partly due to attitudes toward motherhood . |
| 6 | Richards won the toss and took a long time to decide to bat ; when he did so Dilley bowled superbly , and five wickets went down for just 54 . |
| 7 | Since ch'i occupies the place in Chinese cosmology corresponding to matter in ours , Westerners took a long time to grasp how very different it is from what we understand by matter . |
| 8 | All fairly straightforward though the coded letter we recovered from his baggage took a long time to crack , while his shaving kit will never be the same again after each piece was stripped to its component parts by one participant . |
| 9 | The gizzard-stone treatment meant that food took a long time to digest . |
| 10 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 11 | The small block of semi-refined sugar , like cement , took a long time to dissolve . |
| 12 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 13 | And that took a long time getting used to . |
| 14 | And the City took a long time to wake up to Europe 's moves towards monetary union ; its bid to host a European central bank was made later than most others . |
| 15 | We got away with it somehow , but it took a long time to live that one down . |
| 16 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 17 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 18 | The wounded took a long time to arrive . |
| 19 | The engine box had a centre ‘ handle ’ and Ian took a long time sighting his chimney by this . |
| 20 | It took a long time to open it and when he drank , it tasted warm against his mouth , as if it had been in the sun ; only there was no sun , not even at fifteen thousand . |
| 21 | The picturesque view , which envisages life as art , took a long time to die . |
| 22 | Victims frequently took a long time to die , often very unpleasantly . |
| 23 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 24 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 25 | O'Hara took a long time to kick-start the motorbike from the kerb . |
| 26 | The four-cylinder engine was more reliable in 1957 , but BRM took a long time to realise that the P25 's air strut suspension — carried over from the V16 — was the cause of its savage oversteer . |
| 27 | You need an awful lot of persuading to get doctors to start to use a new medicine and a classic example was of the treatment of depression , where the pharmaceutical manufacturers started to produce tablets which were very effective in stopping depression , not just feeling a bit blue but actual serious clinical depression where the person 's sat in the corner and stared at the wall and did nothing — I mean really serious depression — doctors took a long time to realize that there was an effective treatment for that and to start to prescribe it , and in fact actually doctors in Britain are rather good in that we prescribe many more effective treatments for depression , we diagnose it more often , and this we believe in our office that this is one of the reasons why the suicide rate has gone down in Britain quite dramatically in the last few years , because depression , which is obviously one of the main causes of suicide , is being effectively treated . |
| 28 | The sinews of political and economic integration required to enable the expanded raising of resources by the Crown took a long time to create . |
| 29 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 30 | Hyacinth took a long time to respond . |