Example sentences of "it took me [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It took me all day . |
| 4 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 5 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It took me two minutes to decide . |
| 8 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | it took me five times |
| 14 | ‘ It took me five years to realise that she was gone and I started living normally . ’ |
| 15 | No it took me fifteen minutes tonight to get from school to Kyle 's Kyle 's school ! |
| 16 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It took me three months to lose the weight , but I felt so well on the programme and was never hungry . |
| 22 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
| 23 | We were late in introducing this concept : it took me three years of persuasion for politicians to accept the idea . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It took me ten minutes to reel him in . ’ |
| 28 | It took me ten minutes just to stop shaking so I could walk . |
| 29 | Even if it took me ten years I would get my own back . ’ |
| 30 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |