Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] long time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 5 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 6 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 7 | Oh they 're taking a long time to get these last two runs are n't they ? |
| 8 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 9 | ‘ Our fans have been waiting a long time for a game like Sunday 's . |
| 10 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 11 | There were only three crumpled cigarette-packs , a sign that whoever had been in the truck had possibly been waiting a long time . |
| 12 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 13 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 14 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 15 | ‘ Well ? ’ she says as though she 's been waiting a long time . |
| 16 | we have been waiting a long time traffic calming . |
| 17 | She has been waiting a long time for your kiss . ’ |
| 18 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 19 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 20 | Unless you are spending a long time somewhere I suggest you simply turn up at a crag and scrounge a look at someone else 's . |
| 21 | I want music to frighten me like T Rex or Johnny Rotten : I 'll be waiting a long time for that in Dublin . ’ |
| 22 | Toby seemed to be gone a long time , but I was n't measuring time very accurately . |
| 23 | ‘ He could be gone a long time , you know . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It seems to be taking a long time , ’ Omi observed . |
| 25 | Muldoon seemed to be taking a long time over his coffee . |
| 26 | ‘ These lights seem to be taking a long time to change ’ |
| 27 | Watching the door , Lucy stood waiting for them to emerge again , but their exit appeared to be taking a long time to eventuate . |
| 28 | ‘ Secrets can be kept a long time , ’ he says . |
| 29 | This is because such schemes are taking a long time to get off the ground and because employers generally recruit from non-local networks ( see also Ladbury and Mira-Smith in this volume ) . |
| 30 | So I think we are actually obliged , and it 's right that people should be consulted , but there is a point about it that it takes an awful long time and that is actually the reason why we 've got er a whole programme of urban safety management schemes that er are taking a long time to develop , it 's almost two years now , and the main reason for that is toing and froing with different designs with members of the public and the worst thing we could do is actually put in a package of schemes which people say , well that 's not what we wanted anyway . |