Example sentences of "long [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her fair hair was so long that it touched his hand whenever they sat side by side . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eventually it may be so long that it reaches the other side of the gap and becomes entangled in a leaf or a twig . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | It was 9in to 10in long and it had a jagged edge like a saw blade . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Freedom from Communism is not going to last the flag very long if it 's identified with a freedom to starve . |
| 20 | It 's only five minutes long but it saves the day . |
| 21 | In Geurrero State this waiting period was apparently not too long but it appeared that in other areas delays and crowded court lists inevitably meant some people spending a considerable time in custody . |
| 22 | The top story , about police computers , turned out to be slightly too long when it appeared in print . |
| 23 | ‘ The effects will be nullified as long as it operates . |
| 24 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 25 | The opposition of the Council of Castile , as long as it existed , was consistent : the old constitution , and with it the powers of the Council , was unalterable without the king 's consent . |
| 26 | As long as it locks . |
| 27 | As long as it go when you push down it locks it 's fine . |
| 28 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 29 | However , the natives , who had known yasak , or alman , before the Russians arrived on the scene , and regarded it as a payment by a vanquished people to its conqueror , in the time-honoured manner would pay only as long as it suited them . |
| 30 | There must have been a lot of that sort of thing , when you come to think about it : tolerating ideological undesirables as long as it suited your own book — not that National Socialism had much ideology beyond being first at the trough . |