Example sentences of "take [art] [adj] while [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That kind of package takes a wee while to put together . |
| 2 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 3 | No but that takes a long while to get round . |
| 4 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 5 | oh I do n't know , I do n't know , I think it will be a while getting rid of it yes , but I think he might get his price eventually , but it will take a long while to get it , it 's up to him if he wants a quick sale , you know , thirty five yeah I , thirty five thousand I think , as I say taking everything into consideration , I mean , failing three okay I know I did the thirty three so take thirty five , thirty three and a half , oh he ai n't got much to worry about |
| 6 | If there is some improvement , persist for another month or two — the Candida is slowly dying of starvation , and it may take a little while to finish it off entirely . |
| 7 | But obviously it was an idea that had never occurred to him before , and his mind would take a little while to accommodate it . |
| 8 | The effects on the body do take a little while to show themselves and sometimes there will be periods when you seem to take three steps forward and two backward . |
| 9 | Often it can take a little while to melt down the pieces of ice to make drinking water . |
| 10 | ‘ The doctor tells us that if it 's the stuff he thinks it is , it can take a little while to work , especially if Sir Thomas drank coffee . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There are many lessons we can learn from other animals , to our great and continuing advantage , and it is high time we took a little while to sit and stare at the other creatures with which we share the earth . |
| 14 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 15 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 16 | Following a bout of diarrhoea — due to an infection or whatever other cause — the digestive processes in our intestines take a little while to get back to normal . |
| 17 | Just have to try and , take a little while to get used to it . |
| 18 | Most UK walkers take a little while to adjust to the scale of high mountain routes . |
| 19 | Note : Remember that many food colourings take a little while to develop to their full intensity after being added to icing or marzipan , especially in the case of red and black . |