Example sentences of "long time [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 2 | It has taken Andrew Murray 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 | I know that 'll take a long time to do it though wo n't it ? |
| 5 | got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it |
| 6 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 7 | That will take a long time to go I think |
| 8 | The other people that have been there a long time know it all and what they , what you say can you help me . |
| 9 | Evolution Without Evidence is not a creationist broadside , but an interesting and well-written exercise on the theme that the young Charles Darwin became convinced of evolution but felt that he did not have the evidence to convince his contemporaries , and spent a long time getting it together and arranging it — so long that he was taken by surprise and had to get out the Origin prematurely ( as he always said himself ) . |
| 10 | Banks are like supertankers : it takes a long time to turn them round . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Goes on a long time does it ? |
| 13 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The handcuffs are cumbersome , perhaps little used , and it takes an askari a long time to adjust them to Tepilit 's thin wrists . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 17 | spent a long time showing me his Dark Crystal |
| 18 | Children will enjoy seeing the chaos as Henry leads all the young animals out into the forest , where it takes the farmer a long time to catch them . |
| 19 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 20 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 21 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 22 | ‘ You have waited a long time to tell me . |
| 23 | It 's just going to take rather a long time making them admit it . ’ |
| 24 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 25 | Er as we know round about July August time , the remaining nine P C's will be er turned into civilians wave of a magic wand the biggest problem there is the total loss of our skills base overnight effectively , the second thing is it 'll take a long long time to get them trained particularly in relation to A L O work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh every year , oh well we 've got a long time to keep it going , within about the first , within about the first month daddy managed to get the iron on the top |
| 28 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 29 | A few young people are really ‘ stuck ’ on glue or products and it may take a long time to help them . |
| 30 | If you want decent trees it takes a long time to grow them ! |