Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 2 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a way , the revolution had been a long time coming and somewhat contained in America , despite the reactions of the mass media which had been — like all conservative America — horrified , if not titillated by the lurid images of beat youth . |
| 5 | It had been a long time since he had felt like that . |
| 6 | Maybe because tonight the warning had been a long time sounding , had started its tormented wailing just when everyone began to think the bombers were n't coming . |
| 7 | It was a dream , it had been a long time since Hari had seen her mother smile for the death of her husband had knocked all the spirit out of Win Morgan . |
| 8 | Because of the ancient feud with the Dwarfs , it had been a long time since any High Elf had set foot on the Old World . |
| 9 | It had been a long time since anyone had enjoyed rubbing cream into her back . |
| 10 | She reached for her silk dressing gown and pulled it on ; she felt good , it had been a long time since she had awoken feeling so alive . |
| 11 | It had been a long time since she had had to stop herself simply blowing away an enemy that she found herself unable to either maim or restrain . |
| 12 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 13 | It was for a party in one of the upstairs rooms , but it had been a long time ago . |
| 14 | She did not know what sort of oddness to imagine , but they had been a long time and there had been peculiar noises . |
| 15 | That had been a long time ago . |
| 16 | But that had been a long time ago . |
| 17 | It had been a long time since I — ’ He broke off . |
| 18 | It had been a long time since she had felt this way . |
| 19 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 20 | It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it . |
| 21 | It had been a long time since she 'd met anyone even remotely interesting , and whatever this man was he certainly was n't remote ! |
| 22 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 23 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 24 | It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken … |
| 25 | He thought again about his parents , but it had been a long time and he became angry with himself because he could no longer picture their faces like before . |
| 26 | For the Black Dwarf , that June , celebrating a year of publication , it had been a rocky time , financially and politically . |
| 27 | ‘ If it had been a different time you 'd have been a doctor or an engineer , ’ Rose said . |
| 28 | It had been a difficult time for everyone , but especially Diana , who was perhaps closest to her father of all the children . |
| 29 | It had been a harrowing time . |
| 30 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |