Example sentences of "took me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me fifty five minutes to get into those awful to get up to the top . |
| 2 | A friend took me one summer on a tour of the Andean provinces . |
| 3 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 4 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 5 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 6 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 8 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 9 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 10 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 11 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 12 | However , it took me two or three weeks to learn them , to pick them up . |
| 13 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 14 | As he lived in the city , Mr Coary drove me up to the Noones ’ for my bag and then took me all the way back to O'Brien 's Hotel in Dublin , where I had stayed long before . |
| 15 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 16 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 17 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 18 | It took me all day . |
| 19 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 20 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 21 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 22 | It took me six turns to get it , get it reversed in . |
| 23 | My wanderings took me first to Beyrout , which I found much too crowded and hilarious . |
| 24 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 25 | That 's John , me boy , he 's a docker down the erm down the dock he got a weeks holiday this week , so I took me other boy and me daughter out last week and erm we 'd left her with dogs so I said we 'd take them out one day perhaps when he get his holiday . |
| 26 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 27 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 28 | It took me four to five months to get back to the weight I was before I was pregnant . |
| 29 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 30 | Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick . |