Example sentences of "be [verb] a long time ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 5 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 6 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 7 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 8 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 9 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 10 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 11 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 12 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 13 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 14 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 15 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 16 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 17 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |