Example sentences of "take [pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not take him very long to decide in favour of the second course . |
| 2 | The next three-quarters of an hour were taken up with wondering why it was taking us so long to get from the airport to the Consulate , and what genius had decided to place the Consulate some hundreds of miles away . |
| 3 | I 'm sorry it 's taken me so long to write to you . |
| 4 | It 's taken me so long to write about just two years . |
| 5 | It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’ |
| 6 | As she was replacing it with its fellows , a thought occurred to her , and she wondered why it had taken her so long to arrive at such an obvious conclusion . |
| 7 | I did n't really think it was going to take me very long to go through that , sorry . |