Example sentences of "it took me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I tell you what , it took me probably another couple of years to get out of that . |
| 2 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 3 | It took me straight back to Cyprus where we lived when I was a little girl . |
| 4 | ‘ It took me completely by surprise , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ It took me completely by surprise , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me . |
| 7 | It took me nearly twenty minutes to talk her out of the loo , finally having to promise that Nevil was not a friend , that he would n't call the police and that there would be no need for Mr and Mrs Binkworthy to know anything untoward had happened that afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ It took me just over an hour to drive here from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 9 | It took me about three hours to get six stops . |
| 10 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 11 | It took me about ten days to work my way into it , after that I found it very acceptable . |
| 12 | It took me about six months to even be able to hear what he 'd done ; I just could n't relate to it because I had so many preconceptions about what I thought it should be . |
| 13 | And of Thompson , he added : ‘ It took me about two years to buy Thompson from Slough . |
| 14 | It took me about three or four minutes to rescue it and I looked at my ‘ prize ’ . |
| 15 | It took me about three hours to do my homework so I was very tired after everything . |
| 16 | It took me about two weeks to catch up with the loss . |
| 17 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 18 | It took me about three seconds to realize that no human agency would ever get the ball out that way and without thinking I withdrew my hands , braced both thumbs behind the angle of the lower jaw and pushed . |
| 19 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 20 | I 'm only second one now , it took me about three or four days to do that . |
| 21 | Well it took me about er ten minutes to tell it , it just took ages and |
| 22 | It took me forever to find the maturity to say to myself how bad it was . ’ |
| 23 | Ordinarily I am not a quick thinker but this situation was very clear ; it took me only seconds to realize that Matt , with his family , needed the job more than I did , so I said to Fred , ‘ In that case , I would like to resign ’ . |
| 24 | It took me only a few weeks to realise that the medical world would never come to grips with polio until it could isolate the virus which caused it . |
| 25 | It has everything you need to control your stock and invoices and is the ideal package for the small business , due to its ease of use , it took me only five minutes to get to grips with the program . |
| 26 | ‘ It took me very much by surprise . |
| 27 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 28 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |