Example sentences of "it took me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took me all of 18 months to figure out what was going on , which says a lot about me . ’ |
| 2 | It took me all day to convince my mother that there had been a change , but by the next afternoon I found myself flat on my back in the hospital again with injunctions not to move . |
| 3 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 4 | It took me all day . |
| 5 | It took me all my self-control not to turn round from the job I was doing until she had stopped and was ready for applause . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Because it took me such a long time to find you . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 10 | Like most of us , it took me half the trip to work out what they were ! |
| 11 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It took me some time to work this out , for I still had such sympathy for Charlie that I could n't look at him coolly . |
| 15 | It took me some time to put the fantastic story of the Gauguin inheritance behind me — not out of my mind , but to the back of it , not only because I wondered if they might deteriorate , but also at the bizarre irony of a family sitting on a fortune which they refused to touch . |
| 16 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It took me some years after reading economics at Cambridge to form the view that there was no substitute in a free society for the market-place as the most efficient means for encouraging production and for ensuring its distribution . |
| 19 | It took me most of a whole day , sir . ’ |