Example sentences of "there [vb past] [been] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been long weeks when he lay sunk in gloom and introspection . |
| 2 | There had been long , bewildering visits from the school attendance officer , from the child welfare people , the police , a probation officer , the police again , a young wife with tears and an older one with a bread knife , and the police yet again . |
| 3 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 4 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 5 | There had been long lines of farmers and farm workers on both sides . |