Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was away a long time . |
| 2 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 3 | There was something rather reckless in my attending the present lectures at all , because it was in the depths of winter , and from where I now lived it was rather a long walk to the town — over a mile , at any rate . |
| 4 | It was n't a long road . |
| 5 | It was n't a long vigil . |
| 6 | Cathy had been assigned a tutor , she used to take her daughter along to a little school ( not her previous school ) and have lessons there in the staffroom : I never liked school before but I liked this as it was only half-past nine till half-past twelve so it was n't a long day and I could take Rebecca with me . |
| 7 | It was n't a long wait . |
| 8 | It was n't a long courtship . |
| 9 | It was not a long journey and as the sun was shining it was a very pleasant one . |
| 10 | It was not a long telephone call . |
| 11 | It was not a long letter , written in an old-fashioned copperplate hand . |
| 12 | Oh they had it well would just be anything it was just a long roll th great big roll , just like It just sort of wrapped in a grey eh a big waterproof kind of co covering , and he would have er shirts and and er things like that for men to buy , or er and sometimes er overall or a pinny , as we said , for mother and the like of that . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , the first record we did for RCA , it was literally a long hallway . |
| 14 | It was quite a long branch , and quite thick . |
| 15 | It was quite a long pause . |
| 16 | I had to be quick , they told me ; it was quite a long climb to the hut where Eric would be waiting and I had to return to Parma that night . |
| 17 | It was quite a long way , and coming home she let the pony trot while she ran beside me . |
| 18 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 19 | It was quite a long time . |
| 20 | It was quite a long letter actually |
| 21 | It was quite a long kiss , very soft and smooth without obvious passion . |
| 22 | He had enjoyed the performance but felt it had become so obviously a theatrical production that it was now a long way from what had taken place in the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | Although I could see marriage appearing in the distance , it was still a long way off . |
| 24 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 25 | It was still a long way from biochemistry , i.e. the understanding of how these substances functioned in the living organism . |
| 26 | It was still a long way . |
| 27 | It may have been John 's 28th birthday , but it was still a long day 's work with fellow presenters Anthea Turner and Diane-Louise Jordan . |
| 28 | Oh I thought he was dead a long time ago . |
| 29 | He was also a long serving secretary of the Forty Club . |
| 30 | It was when the pale flood of light returned that Stephen saw the man — He was quite a long way off , not far in from the road , and he was standing quite still as if waiting for someone or watching . |