Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know I 've been a long time on this but I 'll I think it 's nearly there . |
| 2 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 3 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 4 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 5 | You 've been a long time ! |
| 6 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 7 | It has been a long time since the women 's game has been so open ; hopefully it will continue . |
| 8 | It has been a long day , but there are still a couple of hours to run , and this is Berlin , where anything can happen . |
| 9 | Everyone is contemplating an early night — it has been a long day , one of the busiest for a while . |
| 10 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 11 | It has been a long time . |
| 12 | It has been a long and widely held assumption that crime is very much more frequent among those of low social status . |
| 13 | This is a very beautiful music , serene , noble , discreet , poignant , composed , grief-stricken , understated , sublime — it has been a long time since I discovered anything quite so touching . |
| 14 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 15 | With more and more database engines sitting on networked servers , it has been a long time coming — the tricky bit , says Shandell is implementing ‘ remote queue pointers ’ . |
| 16 | To a few of us it may seem like only yesterday , but to the Princess , I suspect , it has been a long decade , for she has completed a most extraordinary metamorphosis . |
| 17 | It has been a long time coming , and apparently impatient fans bombard the Pan press office weekly for information on its appearance . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't usually do that , but it has been a long day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It has been a long time , Warren , ’ she said evenly . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been a long hard season for Nigel , and obviously he 'll be a little bit down after what happened at Wembley , ’ said Bingham . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , it has been a long time , and I expect you and Marissa … ’ |
| 22 | Phil Farrand says it is brilliant … it has been a long slog and has meant a lot of hard work |
| 23 | ‘ Well , ’ she taunted foolishly , ‘ it has been a long time . ’ |
| 24 | God it 's only quarter past two , it has been a long day in n it ? |
| 25 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 26 | It had been a long time since we last saw one of those , so we bought ice cream , sat in the sun and wrote postcards at the Reykjahlid shop . |
| 27 | It had been a long hot day on the farm where I help my father with his large dairy herd . |
| 28 | It had been a long , slow journey from Odessa and although it was already 1am there were still many more official forms to fill out before their new life in Israel could begin . |
| 29 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 30 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |