Example sentences of "take [pers pn] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 2 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 8 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 9 | How long did it take to establish that did it take you a long time to ? |
| 10 | Well Charlotte it 's not easy , it 's gon na take you a long time , but then so |
| 11 | It would take him a long time then would n't it ? |
| 12 | That should take him a long time to . |
| 13 | It would take her a long while to learn to become one of them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | That 'll be one read , but we 'd have to read it to you and it 'll take us a long time ! |
| 16 | Erm that 's the plan of course it it will take us a long time to find something suitable . |
| 17 | I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do . |
| 18 | ‘ That lumbar puncture seems to be taking them a long time . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 22 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 25 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 26 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 27 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 29 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 30 | 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 . |