Example sentences of "took [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My pal Pinkie Blenkinsop took me one night to ffeatherstonehaugh 's . ’ |
| 2 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 3 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 4 | It took me two minutes to realise what a bunch of inaddo wimps the hacks who had managed to destroy the NME 's ridiculously high punk circulation were . |
| 5 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 6 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 8 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |
| 9 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 10 | So er we were introduced and the first time he took me out er he proposed to me but it , it , it took me six months to make my mind up . |
| 11 | Davis had such a good time in Paris that when he got back to the US , he was so depressed that ‘ before I knew it , I had a heroin habit that took me four years to kick . ’ |
| 12 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 13 | Took me thirty seconds to make that gravy . |
| 14 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 15 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 16 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 17 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 18 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 19 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 20 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 21 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 22 | THERE IS nothing particularly difficult about Creag Meagaidh , unless it comes up in a spelling test , yet it took me three attempts to get to the top of the damned thing . |
| 23 | ‘ It took me three attempts to land the fish but eventually I managed to bring it in to the bank and my mate Paul scooped the net under it . |
| 24 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 25 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 26 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 27 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 29 | It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’ |
| 30 | Outside , in the terrible wind and the rain , it took them fifteen minutes to get the boat ready . |