Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative . |
| 2 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 3 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 4 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 5 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 6 | WSR Company Chairman Dennis Taylor flagged off the first passenger train to call at the halt since 1990 on Tuesday , July 14 , accompanied by a grateful family of holidaymakers from the nearby holiday park who were spared the longer walk to Watchet . |
| 7 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 8 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 9 | Finally , when she was fastening the long row of buttons on a classic dark blue creation , her mother came in , her lovely calm as untouched as ever , as though missing daughters suddenly returning were quite a normal thing . |
| 10 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |
| 11 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 12 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |
| 13 | They were gone a long time . |
| 14 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 15 | By now it was painfully clear that an aircraft display hall was the route for the Museum to take , if it were to secure the long term . |
| 16 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 17 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 18 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped . |
| 20 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 21 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 22 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 23 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 24 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 25 | One of them was holding the longest pair of pliers Dorcas had ever seen . |