Example sentences of "[vb past] me [art] [adj] time [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil .
2 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
3 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 .
4 It took me a long time to find .
5 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
6 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
7 ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
8 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
9 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
10 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
11 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
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