Example sentences of "long [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brushed the long hair till it gleamed ? |
| 2 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 3 | Military expenditure is dysfunctional for the domestic economy in the long term because it leads to low investment , lowers overall growth performance and encourages high unemployment and balance of payments problems . |
| 4 | A long pole and it worked a lot of cog wheels and the shaft going through to the dairy to turn the churn . |
| 5 | Within another two miles we can pick out the inverted ‘ L ’ pattern of one end of a long forest where it touches a B road , adjacent to which point two minor roads feed in at T-junctions ( K , picture taken from south of track — with apologies for the slightly confusing cloud shadow . ) |
| 6 | If you are wearing trousers you 'll have to wear a long top so it does n't show anything . ’ |
| 7 | All had now to be arranged long distance but it seemed to work remarkably well . |
| 8 | There would be no more of that : she would see the person as he was , and see him steadily , setting aside her own long shadow as it fell . |
| 9 | Careful attention to engine mounting and sound insulation means that the large engine sounds almost as though it belongs to the car in front — a remote burbling noise that seems to have travelled a long way before it reaches the driver 's ear . |
| 10 | mathematicians a long time but it does help . |
| 11 | Celtic Crescent was n't a crescent , and it was a long time since it had been Celtic . |
| 12 | For our purposes what matters is that RNA , or something like it , was around for a long time before it became self-replicating . |
| 13 | It seemed to take an unduly long time before it took hold . |
| 14 | I would n't do anything that took a long , long time before it showed a reward . |
| 15 | It , it 'll take a long time before it starts to buck up . |
| 16 | Will he take steps to ensure that buses have greater priority over other road users and to eliminate one of the major causes of road congestion in London — the long time that it takes to get passengers loaded on to one-man operated buses because drivers have to give change to passengers ? |
| 17 | We have , we have had that form kicking around for quite a long time and it 's never really been |