Example sentences of "have [verb] me a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 3 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
| 4 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 6 | Well it 's taken me a long time to even be able to give affection . |
| 7 | These flowers have lasted me a long time cos Ruth gave them to me on my birthday last month . |