Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were given a long account of tritium generation at Mount Mauna Loa and all that and then ‘ by the way here is the neutron spectrum ’ . |
| 2 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 5 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 6 | He did not wait for the servants to open the doors , but just pushed through into the entrance hall , and then into the great ballroom where a score of painters and upholsterers were finishing a long night 's work during which they had transformed the ballroom into a silk-hung fantasy . |
| 7 | Detective Chief Superintendent Wycliffe and his wife , Helen , were to see the spectacle for the first time ; they were spending a long weekend with the Ballards , who lived on the moor above the town . |
| 8 | They were gone a long time . |
| 9 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 10 | The collapse continued until many thousands of tons of rock were blocking a long section of the underground roadway . |
| 11 | ‘ With Lime Grove then , if you were planning a long shot from any particular place you had to be sure the camera could physically get to that exact spot to take it . |
| 12 | Umberto , Alejandro 's laziest groom , was holding tightly on to her , while Raimundo , who was wearing a leather apron to protect his Gaucho pants , his little eyes glinting with pleasure and cruelty , was attaching a long lead rope to her headcollar . |
| 13 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
| 14 | While researching my article , I was given a long briefing at Falkland House in London , by a Falkland Islands councillor nominated by the Islands ' London representative . |
| 15 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 16 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ( Later we learn that her body was carried a long distance on someone 's back , for there are only a few places in Tibet where sky burials are performed . ) |
| 19 | The defendant dock company , a wholly owned subsidiary of a port authority , was granted a long lease of part of a disused naval dockyard and applied to the plaintiff local authority for planning permission to develop the land as a commercial port . |
| 20 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 21 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 22 | I was wondering a long time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew it was going a long way , I was so pumped . |
| 25 | She was wearing a long dress , torn and wet , with a tight bodice … |
| 26 | Jehana was wearing a long gown of cream-coloured cloth . |
| 27 | He was holding a long canvas bag and a cardboard box . |
| 28 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 29 | At about ten-thirty when she was running a long bath , Emma knocked on the door . |
| 30 | She was taking a long time to come to the attempt on Marek 's life that morning . |