Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] [adv] to get " in BNC.
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1 | I did not live far from the school so it did not take long to get there . |
2 | It did n't take long to get her under control . ’ |
3 | ‘ Christ , ’ grumbled Yanto , ‘ that did n't take long to get around . |
4 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
5 | It stuck a bit halfway , since zippers always do , but it did n't take long to get an opening big enough for the nomes to climb down inside . |
6 | It did n't take long to get things sorted out . |
7 | Once you 'd confirmed my suspicions it did n't take long to get to the bottom of the story . |
8 | It did n't take long to get to Lori 's suite , but this time her knock took longer to be answered . |
9 | This as well , right did n't take long to get down the tip ? |
10 | I do n't want here to get mired in issues of personality and priority , some of which have been brought into the public domain by Susan Allport in her book Explorers of the Black Box , but to concentrate instead on some of the more problematic theoretical issues . |
11 | It does not take long to get used to plotting points on screen with the mouse , so creating simple straight line shapes soon becomes quite easy . |
12 | Yes , at fifty instead of sixty , they said you retire at age fifty and we will make your pension up to what you would have got at age sixty and we will also do the same with you lump sum and so now you know , this and they did that with thirty thousand I think went in one year , it does n't take long to get rid of one point seven billion pounds when you 're doing for that er that number of people erm and |
13 | It does n't take long to get there . |