Example sentences of "[vb past] me [art] [adj] time [to-vb] " 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 . |