Example sentences of "but it take me [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’
2 I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed .
3 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 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 .
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