Example sentences of "me [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It does worry me the longer it goes on without one . |
| 2 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 3 | It took me a long time to accept the fact that now I should not be killed — that I should be one of the survivors . |
| 4 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 5 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 6 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 7 | She gave me a long piercing inspection . |
| 8 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 10 | It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’ |
| 11 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 12 | It took me a long time to accept solos at all , and to this day there are still so few lead players that I really like . |
| 13 | Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes . |
| 14 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 15 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 16 | She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before . |
| 17 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 18 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 19 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 20 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 21 | She gave me a long , disdainful , disappointed look and then out of the charity of her heart , graciously excused me thus : |
| 22 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 23 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 24 | Clambering over rocks and following narrow sheep trails — which tended to peter out disconcertingly in the thick bracken — it took me a long time to find a possible beck-traversing spot . |
| 25 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 26 | Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest . |
| 27 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 28 | He gave me a long look . |
| 29 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 30 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |