Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had done another paragraph before it occurred to her that he was taking a long time in Georgina 's office . |
| 32 | Things had not gone too smoothly in hospital and it was taking a long time to recover . |
| 33 | The switched-off siren was taking a long time to die . |
| 34 | I was taking a long time ! |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | For to believe in abstract principles of justice was to face a long series of disillusionments in everyday life , as the Goliardic poems , written by scholars trained in the new learning , amply demonstrated : |
| 37 | Sapt was carrying a long rope and I had a short , thick stick and a long knife . |
| 38 | Woolley was making a long telephone call . |
| 39 | Ooh I was taken a long time ago . |
| 40 | There I was to have a long conversation with young Middleton , to whom I took a great shine , and was very impressed with him as a person and indeed his crew . |
| 41 | Finally , the question of national guilt and its expiation was to have a long history in relation to abolition and emancipation involving a definition of national interest as meeting national duty by observing the religious conception of proper order in the world . |
| 42 | I saw long legs and a big pair of hands and he was standing a long way from the ball , giving himself plenty of room . |
| 43 | ‘ The entire community was resettled a long time ago . |
| 44 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 45 | The sky was getting darker and the silhouette of the Chateau was casting a long shadow of gloom over the scene . |
| 46 | She might say ‘ no' ’ even if it was planned a long time . |