Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [art] long [noun sg] [prep] " 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 | It is also significant that the steam turbine and the pneumatic tyre were the only major British innovations of this period ; in the new industries she was a long way behind Germany and the United States and by 1914 was falling behind even in the older industries in which she had first established her supremacy . |
| 5 | She was a long time in answering . |
| 6 | But time was pressing on and we were a long way from home . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought we were a long way from anything out here . |
| 9 | ‘ That last one were a long time before your time , Tom . |
| 10 | Even though one was a long way from primitive promiscuity , binding individual marriage had not yet appeared . |
| 11 | There were a long way from . |
| 12 | It argued that there was a long history of use of such powers ; that , with the widening of the sphere of government , the use of delegated legislative powers was necessary for the efficient conduct of business in the modern state ; that the civil service was best placed to provide the expertise which was necessary to make effective use of these powers ; and that the way in which the powers were actually used in practice was such as to refute any claim of a ‘ new despotism ’ . |
| 13 | Where there was a long history of nationalist resistance , notably in Poland , Russification provoked bitter resentment . |
| 14 | In addition to the Erzerum and earlier treaties , there was a long history of tension in the region . |
| 15 | There was a long delay between the pupils ' arrival and the commencement of the displays and chanting , during which Miss Cackle and the teachers greeted friends and acquaintances , and the girls all stood to attention , being neat and well-behaved and a credit to the school . |
| 16 | However there was a long delay in sending out a rescue launch as the raid was still on , and he was dead when eventually picked up ; Waghorn was also killed . |
| 17 | Suddenly there was a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 18 | There was a long tradition of regarding trusts as protected by actions in personam ; and it is not likely that jurists were early ( or even late ) prepared to abandon this and make available a real protection in all circumstances . |
| 19 | The most significant developments occurred in Scandinavia where there was a long tradition of limited cooperation , or at least of a belief in a common cultural area which made such cooperation valuable , if not almost inevitable . |
| 20 | Factory girls usually married in their early twenties ; it was unlikely to happen over the age of 25 , and only in textile areas , where there was a long tradition of employment , did women generally prolong their independence , though conditions varied in different industries and areas . |
| 21 | In cotton textile workers ' families , where there was a long tradition of married women 's work , one night a week was usually set aside by husbands and wives as ‘ Mary-Ann night ’ . |
| 22 | There was a long pause during which a kind of stage fright seized me and perhaps him too : we remained in our positions , Richard sitting up in bed and me standing at the window , looking at each other helplessly like actors who have forgotten their lines . |
| 23 | Then there was a long pause during which Sophie drank her coffee and avoided looking at her companion . |
| 24 | There was a long pause from my point of view , while the lights began flickering in the office and the train exceedingly slowly reversed , before stopping again and going into a sudden jerk . |
| 25 | There was a long pause before the Mother Superior said , ‘ Yes , if that 's how you wish it , Mrs Winkowski . ’ |
| 26 | Their income from that capital was a proportionate share of her total net income ( and here there was a long schedule of allowable deductions ) … and so it went on , carefully balancing her interests and theirs . |
| 27 | ( There was a long correspondence in a camp newspaper about the evil effects which female parts in a play had on such people . ) |
| 28 | And first , there was a long interruption to normal service at Prime Minister 's Question Time when two Tory backbenchers threw themselves in front of the House and got mown down by the Opposition roaring with ridicule . |
| 29 | There was a long counter of polished reddish-brown wood and , behind it , shelves piled with cardboard box upon cardboard box and many coloured , oddly shaped parcels . |
| 30 | There was a long debate on the question of a sixth boxer being selected following the recommendation for five by the National Coaching Committee . |