Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [art] long " in BNC.

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1 Whatever , it got him a long , heartfelt , high-pitched ‘ Wooooooooooooooo ’ from about 20,000 people who 'd got little else to wooo about .
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 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
5 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
6 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 .
7 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
8 It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
9 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
10 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
11 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
12 It took me a long while to pay it off .
13 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 .
14 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
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 When I cottoned on to that I started to encourage June , sitting her on her own , it took me a long , long time , she is a very sensitive girl .
19 It took me a long , long time before I found a road back to the market town , and the dorf .
20 It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife .
21 I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug .
22 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
23 so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds
24 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
25 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 .
26 It took her a long time to come to terms with that presence ; the proximity of an armed police officer was the most potent reminder of the gilded cage she had now entered .
27 It was difficult for her to breathe , and it took her a long time to climb the stairs .
28 As soon as she 'd gone , Flavia Sherman began to fumble with the buckle of her belt ; but her hands shook uncontrollably and it took her a long time to undress .
29 It took her a long time to negotiate the journey to the small , functional bathroom across the passage , but in the end she accomplished it without incident .
30 However , it took them a long time to see an ally in the Poles .
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