Example sentences of "took me a long [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 2 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 3 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 4 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 7 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 8 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 9 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 10 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 11 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 12 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |