Example sentences of "[vb past] me a long time [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It took me a long time to find . |
4 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
5 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
6 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
7 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
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 remove the stain . |
10 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |