Example sentences of "[pron] have been a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 2 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 6 | Even the products division which has been a long time drag on profitability improved its performance , and was well up too . |
| 7 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 8 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 9 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 10 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 11 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 12 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 13 | It has been a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager . |
| 21 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 22 | ‘ It has been a traumatic time , with nobody really knowing what was happening . |
| 23 | It has been a strange time for customs officers thought Western Europe and North America . |
| 24 | nationally it has been a stimulating time . |
| 25 | It was Millwall 's first defeat in eight games and Crosby said : ‘ It has been a hard time . |
| 26 | It has been a busy time in London , with new contracts across the city . |
| 27 | For the Black Dwarf , that June , celebrating a year of publication , it had been a rocky time , financially and politically . |
| 28 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 29 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 30 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |