Example sentences of "[pers pn] took a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you yours took a long time , you know that bump Tom had going to his |
| 2 | She took a long time to dress . |
| 3 | There was a lot to look at , so she took a long time coming back after school , stopping to watch the men mending holes in the roads , to watch the demolition team with their mighty metal ball swinging on its chain from the crane clearing the bomb-site , to watch carpenters erecting wooden hoardings around the cleared sites to keep the people out , to see bill-stickers on ladders pasting huge coloured pictures on to the hoardings . |
| 4 | And she took a long time to answer it . |
| 5 | And Fergie honestly admitted of his shock £1million signing from Cambridge : ‘ We took a long time assessing him . |
| 6 | And they took a long time making it . |
| 7 | And they took a long time serving it . |
| 8 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 9 | Mozart , whose feelings for her took a long time to cool , later wrote more music for her , including the role of Madame Herz in his Singspiel Der Schauspieldirektor ( The Impresario ) , and she was the first Viennese Donna Anna in Don Giovanni . |
| 10 | Tromsø was huddled and silent below and he took a long time over his last look . |
| 11 | He took a long time to answer the door and his painful movements towards and into his armchair explained why . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The device looks simple , but it took a long time to find companies that could make it , ’ he says . |
| 15 | It took a long time to figure out how his hair goes . |
| 16 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 17 | It took a long time to bring the fire under control , the local pubs kept open for three days and nights . |
| 18 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 19 | It took a long time for us to reach an understanding . |
| 20 | Despite hospital treatment , it took a long time for Sheila to recover . |
| 21 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 22 | ‘ It took a long time for me to get my Gold Award because some of the tasks were very difficult , ’ says Fiona of the demanding project that included months of community service , braving the elements on an exploratory camping trip and writing a long and detailed historical thesis ! |
| 23 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 24 | ‘ It took a long time for all this to evolve . |
| 25 | Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ It took a long time for me to come to terms with the whole mistletoe thing . |
| 27 | It took a long time , the waiting . ’ |
| 28 | At any rate it took a long time to synthesize . |
| 29 | It took a long time , but she finally got the drunken figure out of the door and closed it firmly behind him . |
| 30 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |