Example sentences of "i a long [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Fifteen-foot Pipe — it took me a long rime to psych myself up to it .
2 She cocked her head on one side and gave me a long scrutiny , almost as though she had never seen me before .
3 He gave me a long look .
4 That was the other thing , it took me a long fight to get my eye drops .
5 It took me a long while to pay it off .
6 It took me a long while though to realise that was Meg Ryan at the beginning .
7 It will save me a long journey twice a day to Norton Junction . ’
8 Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney .
9 You gave me a long description . ’
10 Hee-Haw carried me a long way through this forest .
11 She gave me a long discourse regarding the horrors of the Middle Ages , concluding by saying , ‘ Then was much misery in Budapest .
12 Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all .
13 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 .
14 It will take me a long time to correct & copy , though : when I have done so , of course you shall have it .
15 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 ’ . ’
16 It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’
17 It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men .
18 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 .
19 It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything .
20 ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment .
21 I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match .
22 I 'm a slow learner and it has taken me a long time to get there .
23 It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through .
24 It took me a long time to remove the stain .
25 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 .
26 " 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 . "
27 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 .
28 ‘ It will take me a long time to define what I mean .
29 It took me a long time to find .
30 It took me a long time to understand that . ’
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