Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] a long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 2 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 3 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 4 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 6 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |