Example sentences of "[pron] was a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a long time because everyone was gassing in the shop . |
| 2 | Sorry I was a long time I did n't |
| 3 | Which was a long time ago . |
| 4 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 5 | THERE was a testing time in store for members of THORP 's Chemical Separation Process team who found themselves in hot water recently . |
| 6 | There was a long time — several lifetimes — when the only sound was the clatter of the rain against the window , then Vitor walked to the cot . |
| 7 | Well if ever there was a right time it was now . |
| 8 | Yes the best if there was a dry time a dry stack , they kept that very best but for the calf beds , both for the bothy and the house . |
| 9 | Having settled the matter , Charity became quite friendly and urged Clarissa kindly to cheer up and not look so gloomy because there was a good time coming . |
| 10 | Presumably few people said ‘ No ’ to him , Well , Kelly reflected as she dialled the Templemans ' number angrily , there was a first time for everything . |
| 11 | Tony and Odd-Knut stopped work too , and there was a silent time , broken only by Tony 's mad rush to find his camera and tripod . |
| 12 | And there was a this time |
| 13 | If there was a next time . |
| 14 | If there was a next time . |
| 15 | If there was a next time . |
| 16 | In that town there was a different time , |
| 17 | Wirral 's heroin ‘ epidemic ’ ‘ incubated ’ unnoticed and in documenting this fact we can do no better than quote an epidemiologist ( Hughes 1977 ) working within a similar heroin outbreak in Chicago during the early 1960s : ‘ In this epidemic there was a tragic time lag between the contagious stage during which heroin use spread and the stage when the epidemic 's full impact was felt and reacted to by the host community . ’ |
| 18 | Do you know if there was a special time that they did this at ? |
| 19 | No there was a full time education I put that Supposed to pay for them . |
| 20 | It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them . |
| 21 | It was a bittersweet time but he still held my hand going to school . |
| 22 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 23 | It was a long time ago . |
| 24 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 25 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 26 | It was a long time ago and he was very small , he said , he could barely recall it . |
| 27 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 28 | It was a long time before his sobs subsided , and by then other , less ugly sounds were coming from the room downstairs . |
| 29 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 30 | It was a long time since he 'd organised anything like a fête . |