Example sentences of "it took me a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 3 | It took me a long time to learn to transfer my attention to men . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It took me a long time , years rather than months , to relax enough for anyone to feel they could tell me anything . |
| 6 | ‘ It took me a long time to learn a fundamental truth about empowerment . |
| 7 | I do n't know why it took me a long time to get into the match . |
| 8 | It took me a long time even to begin to look at what I was going through . |
| 9 | It took me a long time to remove the stain . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It took me a long time to find . |
| 13 | It took me a long time to understand that . ’ |
| 14 | It took me a long time to find it , too , with no qualifications and a lifetime of being a housewife . |
| 15 | I , it took me a long time , time to realise that one can be for a mug . |
| 16 | so it took me a long time to live down my weeds the lady with the weeds |
| 17 | I just think I just think it 's quite important for us all to realize I did a , when I used to do a similar job to this it took me a long time before I realized that the customer , you know on the phone does n't know that your you should n't have asked an open question there |
| 18 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |