Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been a long day and she had absorbed a lot of information on the subject that was uppermost in her mind . |
| 32 | It had been a long day for our guests , as they had left La Loupe at 1Opm on the Friday evening , so it was home to bed for a good night 's sleep , ready for a full day exploring on the Sunday . |
| 33 | It had been a long day — the children safely delivered to Grandma , the freezer full of food ( for a husband to cope on his own ) , leotards and tights packed along with all the other paraphernalia needed for a Medau display . |
| 34 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 35 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
| 36 | It had been a long walk , but Travis was barely breathing hard , a fact she wished she had n't noticed because it underlined his strength and she found that such a potent attraction . |
| 37 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 40 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 41 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 42 | It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back . |
| 43 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 44 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 45 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 46 | It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off . |
| 47 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 48 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 49 | It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it . |
| 50 | It had been a long time since she 'd met anyone even remotely interesting , and whatever this man was he certainly was n't remote ! |
| 51 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 52 | It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken … |
| 53 | He thought again about his parents , but it had been a long time and he became angry with himself because he could no longer picture their faces like before . |
| 54 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
| 55 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 56 | It 's been a long road back from those dark and confused days , and Pam is grateful for whatever she can achieve these days . |
| 57 | ‘ It 's been a long road , ’ said their coach , Toni Szifris , who has guided the nucleus of the team from a group of minis , playing in Portobello , through high school . |
| 58 | It 's been a long journey . |
| 59 | It 's been a long drive . |
| 60 | It 's been a long tour . |