Example sentences of "[pers pn] was a long time ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long time ago . |
| 2 | It was a long time ago and he was very small , he said , he could barely recall it . |
| 3 | ‘ It was a long time ago … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was a long time ago , James , a long time ago . |
| 5 | It was a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Edna , banging her iron down on the cloth on the kitchen table , had replied , ‘ It was a long time ago , Miss Celia . |
| 8 | It was a long time ago and the memory plays tricks but Derek thinks the following account is fairly accurate . |
| 9 | It was a long time ago now . |
| 10 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ Preston said . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ he says . |
| 12 | I think it can do , I mean it was a long time ago and I 'm , I 'm |
| 13 | It was a long time ago . |
| 14 | Oh well , it was a long time ago . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It was a long time ago . |
| 16 | It was a long time ago . |
| 17 | ‘ But it was a long time ago , before … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ said Juliet , who had been sitting quietly . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , it was a long time ago , ’ said Kee . |
| 20 | It was a long time ago and her head had been full of balls and parties , not City uproars , when she was twenty-one . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a long time ago , ’ Roman said softly , slipping his arm round her waist and holding her against him as they walked . |
| 22 | It was a long time ago . |
| 23 | ‘ It was a long time ago . |
| 24 | They had er his name was Jimmy they had er well one used t one old gentleman used to be a yes and his name was Jimmy , the waiter , that 's right I , I get a , I have to think because I , I sometimes get mixed up and I 'm at Cambridge and you see it was a long time ago , you see , so , since I was young and I was then . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , it was a long time ago . |
| 26 | Lord , Ellie , but it was a long time ago , and what a green girl I was . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a long time ago . ’ |
| 28 | But it was a long time ago and other things have happened since . ’ |
| 29 | He had n't wanted to learn more about them , not really , ugly things after all and it was a long time ago . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a long time ago , Rachel . ’ |