Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] a long [noun sg] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unluckily , however , I was a long way from her at table . |
| 2 | She was a long way from believing him . |
| 3 | Though she was learning to cope , she was a long way from being over Guido yet . |
| 4 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 5 | We were a long way from Orange , isolated in the farmhouse , and we knew how unpleasant the next month was going to be depended entirely on the whims of the staff . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 7 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 8 | We tried to solve this with management and supervisory boards based in the department but they were a long way from the boards of industry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Singapore , however , had one military drawback : it was a long way from the Arabian Peninsula and the Persian Gulf . |
| 11 | It was a long way from Brewer Street . |
| 12 | Tom read just enough of it to see that it was a long way from West Hampstead and no one he knew had been killed or injured . |
| 13 | The Yasa was made when your grandsire and mine both thought that it was a long way from Kinsai to the Eastern Sea , ’ he growled . |
| 14 | It was a long way from New York , let alone the West Coast , Beatles , Stones , and all . |
| 15 | It was a long way from the back streets of big cities and the criminal set , and even further from the grim-faced soldiers who had guarded her last assignment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was a long drive from the airport , made tedious by the unnatural , tense silence in the cab . |
| 18 | It was a long drop from the balcony of the games room ; the castle apothecary carried a line of lethal poisons and draughts ; there were ways out of the castle , a postern or two , and a narrow winding path through the fractured rocks and fallen masonry all tumbled round the castle 's plinthed base like scree , then a long cold walk into the snowy silence … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was a long walk from the lock , but Harry had made her a box on wheels in which to push the two little girls , Corrie Palmer and her last child , Lily , who was seven months younger . |
| 21 | He was a long way from being an alcoholic , but he was vulnerable to heavy social drinking and was a sucker for the old Scottish adage ‘ One For The Road ’ . |