Example sentences of "but it took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 2 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 3 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 4 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 9 | But it took me by surprise . |
| 10 | 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 . |