Example sentences of "i [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 2 | He watches me the whole time . |
| 3 | It hangs over me the whole time . |
| 4 | Which was stupid — I mean , I had a really good girl right along with me the whole time . |
| 5 | She was berating me the whole time . |
| 6 | I 'm not asking you to help me , but at least you can let me get on with things instead of badgering me the whole time . |
| 7 | ‘ He did n't try to flirt with me the whole time , ’ she defended , and half wished then that she had n't said anything about lunchtime . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it . |
| 10 | That 's why it has taken me a long time to say ‘ I do work hard , so I need people to do this kind of stuff ’ . ’ |
| 11 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 12 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 15 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 16 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 17 | I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there . |
| 18 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 19 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " She gave up on me a long time ago , but she made sure that my two sons , Charles and Joseph , speak the language of her forebears , and that will stand us in good stead in your colony . " |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean . |
| 24 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 25 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 26 | I am so angry it takes me a long time to find the words . |
| 27 | It may have taken me a long time to find out about him . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 29 | " It has taken me a long time to get here , " said the jubilant Mancunian as he left the press centre to start his celebrations . |
| 30 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |