Example sentences of "[vb past] me [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Rochester was in such a hurry that he only allowed me a short time to put on my wedding dress and veil . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
4 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
7 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
8 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
9 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
10 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It took me a long time to find . |
14 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
15 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
16 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
17 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
18 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
19 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
20 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |
21 | But he gave me a hard time . |
22 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
23 | and I visited their friends and went to their church with them and they gave me a wonderful time , did everything for me |
24 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |