Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a long [noun] [adv] " 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 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 6 | Well when you 're driving along you 're looking a long way ahead that 's why and anything that comes in the road you see it Oh I hope whoever was involved in that accident tonight was alright . |
| 7 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 8 | Th th that we er we , we are moving a long way away from this egalitarian position , we 've abandoned that and we 've said right we , we are |
| 9 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 10 | But because the new craft will broadcast at a high power , they will have to be spaced a long way apart so that TV sets in , say , Canada do not receive signals meant for the US . |
| 11 | The lugworms may be lagging a long way behind , but perhaps their time may come ? |
| 12 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 13 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 16 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 17 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 18 | Metals was used for barrels but only for ones that were being taken a long way away like wine barrels that were being taken to or from Gascony . |
| 19 | To link small variations in a single protein with the existence of an all-purpose ‘ addictive personality ’ is to go a long way too far . |
| 20 | But this is looking a long way ahead . |
| 21 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 24 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 27 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 28 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |