Example sentences of "had be [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a long day at the end of a busy week , but that was n't all of it . |
| 2 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 6 | There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel . |