Example sentences of "[adv] it took me " in BNC.

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1 Alone , I could hide my inability , force myself to concentrate and to finish any given piece of work to the best of my ability , no matter how long it took me .
2 D do you know how how long it took me to do them ?
3 I ca n't believe how long it took me to realise you really were innocent ! ’
4 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
5 Coming home it took me a bit longer cos it was all that delay at the hill .
6 Well it took me about er ten minutes to tell it , it just took ages and
7 Then it took me four or five days to be able to walk with a stick .
8 Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running .
9 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 .
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