Example sentences of "it [was/were] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | and erm it were a long play and it were hundred and twenty nine pound video . |
| 2 | ‘ You 're sweet , ’ said Lucy , stroking her face , holding her hand , ‘ but it was a long long time ago . |
| 3 | It was a long time since she had last seen Michael : it was seven months , two weeks and three days , four if she counted today . |
| 4 | It was a long time ago . |
| 5 | The end of year deadline for eradication of asbestos-contaminated rolling stock , agreed many years ago between BR and the unions , was quietly and mutually forgotten when it was realised it was a long way from being achieved unless services were decimated . |
| 6 | It was a long tale of low-cost facelifts , make do and mend , and cover up the cracks in a coat of Network SouthEast red , white and blue paint . |
| 7 | It was a long and anxious debate about Ramsey without him knowing ; between the Archbishop of Canterbury , the prime minister Eden , the prime minister 's patronage secretary Bevir , Garbett the outgoing Archbishop of York , and Wand the outgoing Bishop of London . |
| 8 | Meanwhile — and it was a long meanwhile — the British were delighted with themselves and with their statecraft . |
| 9 | It was a long book which attempted to define Marx 's and Engels 's position vis-à-vis a whole range of contemporary socialist philosophers . |
| 10 | It was a long trip , not helped by a tyre that cried ‘ enough ! ’ in the middle of nowhere and required changing — a job made more difficult by the fact that Odd-Knut had no spare — but ultimately we arrived at the entrance to Rostadalen . |
| 11 | We called the police and ambulance but it was a long time before the police arrived . |
| 12 | It was a long business . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 15 | He had keen eyes and quick hands , so it was a long time before he got caught . |
| 16 | It was a long bus-ride to reach those low huts standing behind the high fence . |
| 17 | Along the main road , though lit , it was a long way ; across the seemingly vast open field , pitch dark , might lie rape , and murder , or freezing to death . |
| 18 | It was a long pull up the hill , and I felt more like doing a roly-poly down it . |
| 19 | It was a long time ago and he was very small , he said , he could barely recall it . |
| 20 | It was a long time before we recovered from the loss , and I vowed never to have another dog because we could never replace Sorrel . |
| 21 | It was a long time before his sobs subsided , and by then other , less ugly sounds were coming from the room downstairs . |
| 22 | It was a long time before they subsided sufficiently for him to relax his muscles and lie still in the rough familiar comfort of tangled blankets . |
| 23 | It was a long way home via Shearbridge Road . |
| 24 | It was a long time since he 'd organised anything like a fête . |
| 25 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |
| 26 | It was a long time . |
| 27 | It was a long walk , but she felt she needed it . |
| 28 | It was a long time since they 'd done anything together . |
| 29 | It was a long lunch in the presence of our new-found friend , the Rugby World Cup . |
| 30 | It was a long way down . ’ |