Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | This savage day , and he thought , inexplicably , for it was a long time ago — he had thought to have forgotten it — of a boy who was swallowed in a sewer . |
| 32 | It was a long time before I could believe that it was really Kāli , come back to find me . |
| 33 | It was a long time since the Professor had addressed him by other than his Christian name . |
| 34 | It was a long time before he pulled out his handkerchief and wiped his face . |
| 35 | It was a long time since Adam had had a dream about Zosie . |
| 36 | And Edna , banging her iron down on the cloth on the kitchen table , had replied , ‘ It was a long time ago , Miss Celia . |
| 37 | It does n't sound much nowadays but believe me it was a long time before I had to much disposable cash in civvie street . |
| 38 | It was a long time after their invention that yarn spinners adapted them for their own purposes . |
| 39 | It was a long time before I got the fame I was looking for . |
| 40 | It was a long time to stay quiet all day until eight o'clock at night . |
| 41 | It was a long time ago and the memory plays tricks but Derek thinks the following account is fairly accurate . |
| 42 | It was a long time before I fell asleep that night ! |
| 43 | It was a long time ago now . |
| 44 | Although the RAF had standard instrument panels from 1936 onwards it was a long time before the merits of this tidy arrangement really caught on in the USA . |
| 45 | It was a long time before I did anything or went anywhere , and then I got involved in the church . |
| 46 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ Preston said . |
| 47 | It was a long time since I had helped to ring shear waters on Skokholm , another of the Pembrokeshire islands , and I wanted my children to see — and hear — the strange petrels . |
| 48 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 49 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ he says . |
| 50 | I think it can do , I mean it was a long time ago and I 'm , I 'm |
| 51 | It was a long time before the boy could settle . |
| 52 | It was a long time ago . |
| 53 | Oh well , it was a long time ago . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ It was a long time ago . |
| 55 | Celtic Crescent was n't a crescent , and it was a long time since it had been Celtic . |
| 56 | It was a long time before Mr Burgess got around to the book . |
| 57 | It was a long time ago . |
| 58 | ‘ But it was a long time ago , before … ’ |
| 59 | Anticipation is one of the choicest forms of pleasure ; it was a long time , she realised , since she had experienced it . |
| 60 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |