Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [prep] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 5 | I have been through a long period of psychotherapy dealing with this abuse and continue to find internal examinations traumatic . |
| 6 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 7 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 8 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 11 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 14 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 15 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 16 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 17 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |