Example sentences of "but it was [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 2 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 3 | Charles and Diana are both very fond of the Antipodes — Charles feels particularly at home there after his months at Timbertop — but it was a long and exhausting tour . |
| 4 | Several workers suggested that there must be a tissue phase , in which the Plasmodium went to ground , but it was a long time before objects , evidently forms of the parasite , were recognized in microscopic sections of the spleen and liver of infected domestic fowl , monkeys and finally man . |
| 5 | Some hours later — no one counted , but it was a long time — eight soaking , snow-covered individuals just — but only just — on the right side of hypothermia made it to the main Teesdale road , which snow ploughs had kept open . |
| 6 | Staines , it appeared , was not far from Chertsey , but it was a long and tedious journey , and meant travelling by omnibus first of all to get to the big station across the river in York Road . |
| 7 | ‘ But it was a long time ago , before … ’ |
| 8 | Not a dish for a dieter , she allowed , but it was a long time since she 'd enjoyed anything quite so much . |
| 9 | Lord , Ellie , but it was a long time ago , and what a green girl I was . |
| 10 | But it was a long step from this to Meade 's contention that the government could by its adjustment of demand raise the level of employment permanently . |
| 11 | But it was a long and lonely quarter of an hour . |
| 12 | But it was a long time ago and other things have happened since . ’ |
| 13 | It did not amount to a commitment for full compensation for pensioners but it was a long way from where the Chancellor started two days earlier . |
| 14 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 15 | When I did go to sleep , I went I do n't remember but it was a long while . |