Example sentences of "taken me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , it has taken me longer than I had at first anticipated to work my way through the manuscript you . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course , it 's taken me years to get where I am . |
| 3 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 4 | Mrs Rosenbloom nearly always found out about it and she would be mad that he had taken me from my work with the children . |
| 5 | My hosts have taken me around , and I thought that we would have lunch in the Television Tower — in fact I have reserved a table . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's taken me 10 years to grow them this long so I do n't like hiding them completely under a hat . ’ |
| 7 | Later , my husband had taken me with him . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's plenty of folk that would 've taken me . |
| 9 | And how long it would have taken me alone ! ’ |
| 10 | Every word of speech , song and prayer was in English , a great change from the services to which an Irish friend had taken me in 1960s Brighton . |
| 11 | ‘ It has taken me all this time to get to the position where I can call people up on the phone go out to dinner or to the cinema . |
| 12 | It has taken me quite a while to be able to do that . |
| 13 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 14 | It had taken me fifteen minutes . |
| 15 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 16 | It has taken me a lifetime to learn that lesson . |
| 17 | Mark eliminates starter motor , battery , alternator , and ignition coil , and fixes in the end on an obscure switch which isolates the electrics from the gearbox and would have taken me a month to find — but , for the man who can , about three minutes . |
| 18 | Over the past three weeks I have conducted my own scientific poll among the taxi drivers who have taken me to and from Conservative Central Office each day . |
| 19 | It has taken me a while to be successful and I 've had a good time in arriving . |
| 20 | If people had taken me as a sincere , genuine man who was worried , I think we could have avoided all that has happened . |
| 21 | I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor . |
| 22 | It has taken me fifty lifts to reach Pinjarra ; a name on the map you do not notice until fate holds you there . |
| 23 | From the cricket and football games Jack and Rod have taken me to , I 'm amazed how you modern people can throw and kick things where you want them to go . |
| 24 | ‘ D' you remember , ’ Cal said , ‘ when I was new at school when you were too , three years ago , they 'd taken me away from St Catherine 's and I never told you why . |
| 25 | In the past I have had to search far and wide for opportunities to fly this wonderful big radial-engined workhorse , and my quest had taken me to Australia , Canada and various parts of the USA ; but now , at last , 45 years after its first flight , we have a floatplane Beaver here in the UK . |
| 26 | They 'ud 've strung me up if they 'd taken me . ’ |
| 27 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 28 | Firstly , Martin Coleman from High Wycombe has taken me to task for not including a power on/off switch in the circuit of Fig. 4 ( April ‘ 92 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , Wales has its Max Boyces , Tom Jones , Shirley Basseys and Shakin' Stevens , but there are n't many singers who actually sing about the country , and the funny thing is that it 's taken me about thirty years to start writing about where I was brought up . |
| 30 | I 've eventually got there — but it 's taken me all these years , ’ she says . |