Example sentences of "it [vb past] a long [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a long time before the railway lines began to shake , and they heard the train coming . |
| 2 | It seemed a long time before anyone answered and she felt rather stupid standing there with the bottles . |
| 3 | It seemed a long time before footsteps came along the hall , the door was pushed wider and Guy appeared with an armful of logs . |
| 4 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |
| 5 | It seemed a long time since she had stood there watching the boats and noticing how brief lack of caution led to trouble . |
| 6 | It seemed a long time since Dana 's phone call had brought Roman Wyatt into her life and she badly needed to be by herself to think about the turmoil he had caused in her ordered existence . |
| 7 | It seemed a long time since the small breakfast that was served in Spain , and in the end Felipe put a portion of each on her plate . |
| 8 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 9 | It seemed a long moment while they remained thus immobile and then the young woman put her head and shoulders down and rushed like an eight-year-old , knees doubling up and arms pounding . |
| 10 | It seemed a longer walk than usual from the bedroom , along the passage , down the stairs and into the living room . |
| 11 | It rang a long time before a woman 's voice answered — the same woman . |
| 12 | It took a long time before she could even bring herself to close her eyes , let alone contemplate sleep . |
| 13 | It took a long time before she 'd sit in that chair . |
| 14 | It took a long time before she would sit in there though did n't it ? |
| 15 | she was one of the first anyway , so er , but it took a long time before she had them , five years ' wait , and she said , that , at the last attempt she said to her husband that 's it now , if it does n't work this time , that 's it , I 'm not having any more attempts , that 's it definitely , and they had that successfully and that 's how they had the twins , so they 're her children , they are their children , it 's just they were fertilized outside the womb , in a glass dish it 's fascinating i n't it ? she said it 's really fascinating I can assure you I said oh I can see |
| 16 | It took a long time and many attempts before the standard route was worked out . |
| 17 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 18 | It took a long time and I 'm not sure I ever did . |
| 19 | It took a long time because Louise kept interrupting with questions that Constance could n't answer and which seemed irrelevant beside the tremendous fact that Ludovico was waiting for her and she longed to run to him . |
| 20 | Over one-hundred feet long , with ninety-four teeth , it had a long tail and four webbed paws . |