Example sentences of "had been [verb] a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 3 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 4 | Watson had been given a hard time from the Wednesday crowd before those goals but is now hoping the tide has turned . |
| 5 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 8 | And Jonathan would never have recognised her as the girl to whom he had become engaged , the easygoing girl whose only concern had been to have a good time , however much money it took . |
| 9 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |