Example sentences of "they [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | The Triton tubes are more expensive , but they provide a great deal of light for their size , they last a long time and they do not fade with age . |
| 3 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 4 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 5 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 6 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 7 | They waited a long time and nobody appeared but the Brigadier did n't call again . |
| 8 | They waited a long time while the hounds drew the covert . |
| 9 | Beans , pulses and grains feature increasingly in a healthy diet , but they take a long time to cook , even using a microwave . |
| 10 | Although it may well be the right treatment , they take a long time to get over it . |
| 11 | I always make sure they take a long time to die . ’ |
| 12 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 13 | Well , we can do that Saturday because they take a long time to get across . |