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

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1 It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull .
2 It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were .
3 It took me two minutes to decide .
4 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 .
5 He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’
6 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
7 So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up .
8 It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night .
9 It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’
10 It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it .
11 THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing .
12 It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry .
13 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 .
14 Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess .
15 It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’
19 It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago !
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