Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pron] take me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 2 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 3 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 4 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
| 8 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |