Example sentences of "me [art] long [noun sg] " 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 . ’ |