Example sentences of "and it took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 2 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 6 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 7 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 8 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 11 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 12 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 13 | ‘ But something had returned to the earth , and it took me with it . |
| 14 | Nothing major and it took me a minute or two before I could make out what it was . |
| 15 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 16 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
| 17 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 18 | 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 . |