Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] me [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Made two , erm , cooked two eggs , and it lasted me two days , whereas you know , usually if I go downstairs , I do n't have to make anything , because all their pre-prepared anyway .
2 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 .
3 Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess .
4 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 .
5 When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well .
6 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 .
7 I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration .
8 It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction .
9 I went down town yesterday and got some braising steak and it cost me five pounds sixty .
10 Erm and it cost me two quid I think for the four .
11 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
12 We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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 .
15 But it hit me one day , he did n't care or he would have made that effort to come and see me and he did n't .
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