Example sentences of "[conj] it was [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ . |
| 2 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 3 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |
| 4 | I received an answer , but I am afraid that it was a long catalogue of half-measures and good intentions . |
| 5 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 6 | Meanwhile — and it was a long meanwhile — the British were delighted with themselves and with their statecraft . |
| 7 | While this was a good thing , such improvements were at first only superficial , and it was a long time before everyday living conditions in deaf boarding institutions and day classes were of acceptable standard . |
| 8 | Celtic Crescent was n't a crescent , and it was a long time since it had been Celtic . |
| 9 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 10 | They regarded him as something more or less from outer space , and it was a long time before he and his family felt themselves to be part of the community . |
| 11 | She had to talk for as long as he wanted and it was a long time . |
| 12 | Merymose 's face hardened , and it was a long time before he answered . |
| 13 | Luke Scott was soon back in her thoughts , and it was a long time before she slept . |
| 14 | Then his smoke-outline blurred to darkness and it was a long time until I woke . |
| 15 | He had n't wanted to learn more about them , not really , ugly things after all and it was a long time ago . |
| 16 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 17 | Not only property stolen in Ipswich , but from surrounding areas , and it was a long job . |
| 18 | It was discovered not on earth in fact but on the sun in the first place , in about eighteen sixty-eight erm absorption lines were seen , and , and it was a long time after that before people realised there was some helium on the earth and , and , and eventually erm helium , some gas was found bubbling up through , from a pit in the Black Forest and , and analysed and found to be helium . |
| 19 | He arrived in an old banger , it was a big farm you know , 500 acre farm , arable and sheep mostly , and it was a long long way right up to this farm , half way up the hill he was going , ’ Gee up then , gee up then . ’ |
| 20 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 21 | Quite clearly , while I 'm not prepared to put a a figure on the contribution that conversions are going to make to the period to two thousand and six , I 'll be most surprised if it was a long way different from what has been taking place in the past . |
| 22 | If it was a long way out . |
| 23 | Cos it was a long table with a white cloth on . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 25 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 26 | Charles and Diana are both very fond of the Antipodes — Charles feels particularly at home there after his months at Timbertop — but it was a long and exhausting tour . |
| 27 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |
| 28 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 29 | Staines , it appeared , was not far from Chertsey , but it was a long and tedious journey , and meant travelling by omnibus first of all to get to the big station across the river in York Road . |
| 30 | ‘ But it was a long time ago , before … ’ |