Example sentences of "take i a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words .
2 got a lot of cards and it takes me a long time to do it
3 It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it .
4 ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean .
5 I 'm sorry , it 's taking me a long time cos I do n't know what to do .
6 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
7 It took me a long while to pay it off .
8 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
9 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
10 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 .
11 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
12 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
13 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 .
14 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
15 ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
16 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
17 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
18 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 It took me a long time to find .
22 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
23 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
24 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
25 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
26 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
27 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 .
28 We rose and he took me a short distance to Bread Street .
29 My twin sister is a nurse and I suppose all the blood and thunder of things took me a different way .
30 It took me a little while to recover form the experience .
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