Example sentences of "[pron] took me [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street .
2 As for playing the Manson , well , it took me a little time to get into it .
3 It took me a long while to pay it off .
4 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
5 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
6 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
7 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 .
8 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
9 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
10 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 .
11 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
12 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
13 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
14 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
15 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 It took me a long time to find .
19 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
20 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
21 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
22 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
23 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
24 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 .
25 It took me a full minute to recognize the soldier in the bush .
26 It took me a little while to recover form the experience .
27 It took me a few minutes to get the hang of things when I put the Legend through an amp .
28 It took me a few minutes to feel brave enough to try her again .
29 ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’
30 It took me a few months to realise that my life was changed completely .
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