Example sentences of "long and it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | the trouble with this is it 's an American book so it 's a bit , I call it biased , erm on erm the betrayal of children on , on the way that they 're not in childhood for very long and it blames literacy , that the more the literate the child becomes |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | its er about four feet long and it stands about two feet high , it 's on legs , it takes quite a lot of room up and we need the space . |
| 5 | Nobody wants to lose and if nobody wants to lose it means it gets fiercer and it goes on for longer and it does takes a long time to resolve , if it ever is and often to the detriment of one person to the success of another . |
| 6 | It 's just like Gameboy but it 's longer and it 's got better games on it you know . |
| 7 | But while 123 Windows is a relatively new product for Lotus , Excel has been exploiting the Windows interface for longer and it shows . |