Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 6 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 7 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 8 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 9 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Secrets can be kept a long time , ’ he says . |
| 11 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 12 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 13 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 14 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 15 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 16 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 17 | They were gone a long time . |
| 18 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 19 | What is more , much of government expenditure is committed a long time in advance and can not easily be cut . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's taken a long time for the guilt to surface . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ She 's taken a long time to throw off the illness and is still not fully fit , ’ said Sheppard 's Milngavie and Bearsden coach , Alex McNeil . |
| 22 | ‘ Therese and Loulou , ’ said Giles , ‘ have been married a long time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 25 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 26 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 27 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 28 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 29 | Brown Owl was gone a long time , but at last she came back , and leaning on her arm and limping was the pilot of the plane . |
| 30 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |