Example sentences of "had be [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had been a long time ago and the jungle had reclaimed its own . |
| 32 | It had been a long time since she 'd laughed , joined in a joke , been silly just for the hell of it . |
| 33 | 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 ! |
| 34 | Ahead , on a right-hand bend , was the farm , but it had been a long time since a chicken had shat in that yard . |
| 35 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 36 | It had been a long time since the mental barrier between herself and the watching audience had been broken … |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | That had been a long meeting . |
| 39 | It had been a long walk so far , and it was n't over . |
| 40 | It had been a long walk , but Travis was barely breathing hard , a fact she wished she had n't noticed because it underlined his strength and she found that such a potent attraction . |
| 41 | It had been a long ride to an enclosure full of low single-storeyed huts of corrugated iron with cinder paths around , and all set in a large flat field of sparse greying grass . |
| 42 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |
| 43 | Cold winter maybe , but it had been a long summer that ended that afternoon , from Powell , through the May Events and , at the end of August , the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia , which had again pulled the demonstrators on to the streets , but on this occasion down to Notting Hill and Olympia , the homes of the Czech and Soviet embassies , and an ill-timed eastern bloc trade exhibition . |
| 44 | There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel . |