Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] a long [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 2 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 3 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 4 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 5 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 6 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 7 | There has been a long resistance to accepting that , in spite of the logical stringency with which laws in science are formulated , interrelated and tested , their origin has never ceased to be the same . |
| 8 | There has been a long tradition of professional marketing activities by a wide spectrum of non-profit making organisations including political parties , the Health Education Council with its anti-smoking campaign , the Right to Read programme , Oxfam , Christian Aid and the Salvation Army . |
| 9 | Most of this is in the northwest where there has been a long history of land-use , involving both degradation and successful reclamation . |
| 10 | There has been a long debate as to whether Severn Mill was operated as a tide mill , the general opinion now seeming to favour this idea . |
| 11 | Recently there has been a long ambulance drivers ' strike . |
| 12 | Mr Foster said : ‘ There has been a long period of uncertainty which always causes problems . |
| 13 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 14 | There had been a long struggle . |
| 15 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 16 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 17 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 18 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 19 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 20 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 21 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
| 23 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
| 24 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 25 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 26 | It has been a long time . |
| 27 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 28 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
| 29 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 30 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |