Example sentences of "long [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt it will be said that the British public have said chemist when they should have said pharmacist for so long that it would be impossible to change , but the obvious answer to that is that decimalisation presented little problem . |
| 2 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 3 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |
| 4 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 5 | Also , the intonation screws are too long ; on the bottom E , the screw is so long that it literally digs into the string . |
| 6 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 7 | Her fair hair was so long that it touched his hand whenever they sat side by side . |
| 8 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 9 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 10 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 11 | In the American flickers , close cousins to woodpeckers , the tongue is so long that it extends beyond the eye-socket into the upper beak , entering through the right nostril so that the bird can only breathe through its left . |
| 12 | Eventually it may be so long that it reaches the other side of the gap and becomes entangled in a leaf or a twig . |
| 13 | To the shrew , 24 hours seems so long that it divides it up into many smaller intervals of activity and rest , effectively experiencing many days within one rotation of the Earth . |
| 14 | The woman in the next room gave a brief shriek of outrage and damage ; then came a silence so long that it was almost eerie . |
| 15 | If a first class student attempts them , he will usually find that the answer required is so long that it will throw his whole script out of balance . |
| 16 | The full list of traits is so long that it appears to call for a man or woman of extraordinary , even superhuman , gifts to be a leader . |
| 17 | Their problems are so deep and the solutions will take so long that it will hold back political and economic progress in western Europe if we insist that they are brought into the fold sooner rather than later . |
| 18 | Oh I I think I shall have to turn this one up a little Dad says it 's alright being long cos it makes me look taller well I do n't know about that what do you think ? |
| 19 | Certainly , it will need to work hard to make up for lost time ; the party has neglected the cause of democratic socialism in the North for far too long and it has allowed would-be Labour activists to become demoralised . |
| 20 | It 's hard and it 's long and it 's going to separate the men from the boys . ’ |
| 21 | The line should be some 10 or 12 yards ( 9 or 10 metres ) long and it should be marked off from the collar in distances of 1 , 2 and 5 yards ( 0.9 , 1.8 and 4.5 metres ) . |
| 22 | The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting . |
| 23 | If you 're feeling depressed after the event — you 've wasted so long and it 's now an anti-climax , or it proved a disaster — the practitioner would concentrate on your lungs and large intestinal area . |
| 24 | September is one of my favourite months for walking as it 's invariably cooler — and wetter , it 's true ! — yet the days are still long and it 's easier to avoid the crowds . |
| 25 | It was 9in to 10in long and it had a jagged edge like a saw blade . ’ |
| 26 | we had a lot of affection for it really and , I mean we 've had it so long and it was the first furniture we had when we married |
| 27 | Leave the whiskey in oak too long and it tastes like a sack of splinters , but if the ageing is done correctly , it makes the spirit mellow and vanillin-sweet . |
| 28 | It was unthinkable that John could be dead , but it had been unthinkable that he would be held for this long and it had happened . |
| 29 | Too short and it may seem rude , too long and it may bore the guests and dampen the proceedings . |
| 30 | The patient with a villous adenoma had a very extensive lesion which was initially 14 cm long and it was a notable success to control his troublesome rectal discharge at all . |