Example sentences of "[pron] was a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unluckily , however , I was a long way from her at table . |
| 2 | I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop . |
| 3 | Sorry I was a long time I did n't |
| 4 | The men stood aside and she walked in between them … almost stumbled in between them ; and then she was in a large room in the middle of which was a long table covered in oilcloth . |
| 5 | This morning she had started out late for Pack Meeting , so instead of going by the woodland path , which was a long way round , she 'd taken the direct route by road and arrived in time . |
| 6 | I recalled Nigel 's telling me that he got tired of signing his name , which was a long one , on forms required by local government each week and for which his office was responsible , and started signing Karl Marx and Adolf Hitler and other such notable figures of history . |
| 7 | They developed a theory of the state which was a long way removed from the rational calculative tendencies of utilitarianism and provided a justification for the role of the state in the spheres of economic life and welfare which went beyond what has usually been countenanced within Liberalism , whether based on utilitarianism or Lockean theory . |
| 8 | He took her back to her flat in Putney , which was a long way , and she turned out to be keen on cocoa . |
| 9 | Which was a long time ago . |
| 10 | The shops were mere cupboards , little dark recesses , six feet high , six deep and four wide , lined with shelves , in front of which was a long , low counter on which the owner sat , like some carved idol in a niche . |
| 11 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 12 | She was a long way from believing him . |
| 13 | Sir John commandeered a table in the corner , greeting the ale wife as if she was a long lost sister . |
| 14 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 15 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 16 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 17 | There was a long pause and then a smile : ‘ I assume I did . ’ |
| 18 | Suddenly there was a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 19 | There was a long moment 's silence . |
| 20 | There was a long gap . |
| 21 | There was a long pause , the kind of pause that winners always display as they create a little time to savour their victory . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a long pause and Dr Runcie said : ‘ Well , I always suspected it was he who had written it , but I never thought there was anything personal in it . |
| 23 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 24 | There was a long pause . |
| 25 | There was a long pause . |
| 26 | There was a long silence . |
| 27 | ’ There was a long painful silence , interrupted at last by the teacher 's impatient voice . |
| 28 | There was a long halt , as a traffic jam piled up ahead . |
| 29 | There was a long queue ; before me an Asian couple stood with a trolley piled ludicrously with shabby luggage . |
| 30 | There was a long pause . |