Example sentences of "[pron] take me a long time " in BNC.

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1 I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words .
2 got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it
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 took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
5 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
6 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 .
7 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
8 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
9 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
10 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
11 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 It took me a long time to find .
15 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
16 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
17 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
18 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
19 I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there
20 One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction .
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