Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 2 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 5 | 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 . |