Example sentences of "[vb mod] have been [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must have been a long summer holiday because I managed to be there both for the haymaking and the harvest . |
| 2 | I suspect you were disguised as a personable young man , a merry companion for the Gascons , after what must have been a long and gruelling journey . |
| 3 | It must have been a long time ago . |
| 4 | It must have been a long day for a boy of that age . |
| 5 | Darwin was troubled by the sudden appearance of a wide diversity of fossils in the Cambrian , and tentatively suggested that there might have been a long interval prior to this period when no stratal record was preserved on the continents . |
| 6 | Whitaker also had Gammon entered in the World Cup final but , as his wife Claire said yesterday : ‘ It would have been a long way to go with just one horse . |
| 7 | But this would have been a long and painful process . |
| 8 | It would have been a long story , the warming of friendship and respect between the barrel-chested Iraqi Colonel and the young man from England who had proved he could stalk and kill . |
| 9 | It would have been a long walk to here , and no doubt some other person would have been offering a dubious lift by the time she arrived . |
| 10 | ‘ That was the turning point — had I gone 2-1 down it would have been a long way back ’ said the Ayrshire man later . |
| 11 | Oh it would have been a long while after the war yes . |