Example sentences of "took [pers pn] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it . |
| 2 | It took me a long while to pay it off . |
| 3 | It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning . |
| 4 | That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 7 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 10 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 11 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 12 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 17 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 18 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 19 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 20 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Closer to Europe the British set up a blockade of Brest , a step which took them a long way towards war with France , and began looking for allies to protect Hanover against France in the event of a continental war . |
| 24 | However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles . |
| 25 | THE drivers who moaned about the parking problems at the Genesis concert at Knebworth because it took them a long time to get out make me mad . |
| 26 | it took them a long time to begin with when he started . |
| 27 | It took them I ca n't remember how many hours but it took them a long time . |
| 28 | Then , steering the conversation back on course , she said , ‘ Are you saying it took you a long time to get over Jennifer ? ’ |
| 29 | It took him a long while before he could face Magrit again . |
| 30 | It took him a long time to recover . |