Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] me [art] long " in BNC.

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1 You gave me a long description . ’
2 She gave me a long piercing inspection .
3 Before I left , she gave me a long talk on the re-wiring of her flat and asked if we have old-fashioned fuse-boxes .
4 She gave me a long , disdainful , disappointed look and then out of the charity of her heart , graciously excused me thus :
5 She gave me a long , loving look .
6 She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest .
7 Great , they last me a long time
8 We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot .
9 I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words .
10 got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it
11 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 .
12 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
13 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
14 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
15 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 .
16 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
17 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
18 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
19 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
20 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
21 It took me a long while to pay it off .
22 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 .
23 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
24 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 .
25 It took me a long time to find .
26 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
27 When I cottoned on to that I started to encourage June , sitting her on her own , it took me a long , long time , she is a very sensitive girl .
28 It took me a long , long time before I found a road back to the market town , and the dorf .
29 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
30 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
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