Example sentences of "[pers pn] take [pron] a while " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took me a while to cotton on . |
| 2 | It takes me a while to get there . |
| 3 | ‘ It took me a while to realise that of course I am not really opening a window : something is zooming forward and appearing out of nothing . |
| 4 | It took me a while to believe those three things utterly and another while to risk acting on the belief . |
| 5 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ It took me a while to find out he ( Rare Bear ) pulled out because I could n't hear that well on the radio . |
| 7 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 8 | This seemed to relate closely to my problems , but I have to admit it took me a while to pluck up the courage to do that deadly and dangerous deed ( that everyone tells you never to do ) to my machine ! |
| 9 | Electronic Mail ( E-mail ) is probably the least easy to configure under Mainlan , and indeed it took me a while to sort out exactly what was required to get a sensible system running . |
| 10 | The window was completely boarded up , it took me a while to do that . |
| 11 | It took me a while to take in what was going on , of course . |
| 12 | It took me a while to work out that it was now Saturday . |
| 13 | It took her a while to understand what I wanted and where I wanted to go . |
| 14 | Her head throbbed and there were stupid tears in her eyes ; so it took her a while to realize that it was the shell Adam had given her . |
| 15 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 16 | But now yeah it took him a while to calm down but he 's a very nice fellow now , very nice chap . |