Example sentences of "it [verb] a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | often it involves a long chase in which the relationships between the record company personnel , the artist and the manager can be the deciding factor . |
| 2 | It has a long tradition of settlement , the hill having been a fortified place since the mid-tenth century . |
| 3 | It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland . |
| 4 | It has a long record of allocating high proportions of its annual budgets to defence , even appearing in the market for a submarine fleet in 1986 . |
| 5 | It has a long body with overlapping scales , with a concentration of fins at the hind end . |
| 6 | It seemed a long way to the building , but eventually she heard his footsteps on wood and knew they had arrived . |
| 7 | Glancing down , it seemed a long drop to the gravel and the sleek cars waiting below . |
| 8 | Try to get a small amount of airbrake on and keep the glider off the ground as long as you can , even if it floats a long way into the airfield . |
| 9 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 10 | Well , the best thing about the course is , I think , that you get an all-round view of how it 's arranged and the time aspect of the information flow — that it takes a long time for information to reach the books and compendia etc . |
| 11 | It takes a long time for an explosion in the southern hemisphere to affect the north ; an eruption in the northern hemisphere has a much quicker impact on us . |
| 12 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 13 | This is because its chronicity can be achieved only by delivering a massive insult or repeated dosing so that it takes a long time for the acute ulcer to heal and often leads to the death of the animal in the acute phase . |
| 14 | But it 's like pouring kettles of hot water into a cold bath it takes a long time for them to make an impression . ’ |
| 15 | It seems to me that you get these big moments in the life of the church , as you do in the life of any institution , historically speaking , and it takes a long time for you to discover what the effect of them is going to be . |
| 16 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
| 17 | I soon discovered that a lot of the local children stuck together and that outsiders were n't made very welcome — even if you come from another part of Cornwall it takes a long time to be accepted . |
| 18 | ‘ It seems a long time since this morning . ’ |
| 19 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 20 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 21 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 22 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 23 | The old lady was quite sprightly for her age but it took a long time for them both to reach the top floor . |
| 24 | It took a long time for us to reach an understanding . |
| 25 | Despite hospital treatment , it took a long time for Sheila to recover . |
| 26 | ‘ It took a long time for me to get my Gold Award because some of the tasks were very difficult , ’ says Fiona of the demanding project that included months of community service , braving the elements on an exploratory camping trip and writing a long and detailed historical thesis ! |
| 27 | ‘ It took a long time for all this to evolve . |
| 28 | ‘ It took a long time for me to come to terms with the whole mistletoe thing . |
| 29 | It took a long time for the penny to drop with me about why I was so apparently popular in men 's organizations in the aftermath of so many women deciding to work separately . |
| 30 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |