Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here thieves removed a picture from the wall and police believe they then walked out with it hidden under a long raincoat . |
| 2 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 3 | For example , it has for a long time been generally accepted by students of organisation that any organisation is likely to need a number of rules and procedures to guide the behaviour of organisational members . |
| 4 | No school-children so far , but I can hear the first faint scrapes and slushing of householders beginning to clean their pavements , and the sound is strange and hard to recognise in the almost silent air , seeming as if it came from a long distance , a country sound in the wrong place . |
| 5 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 6 | … the lands belonging to Pagham , firstly from the West of Withering , by that harbour to the place which is called Bonar Stream , and thus it leads to the long village . |
| 7 | It sounds like a long way ? |
| 8 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 9 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 10 | It had to first of all survive which is why it went on the long march was n't it ? |
| 11 | At the present time , it has become attenuated but not extinct , and it continues in the long review-articles in the new York Review of Books and London Review of Books , and a few other periodicals . |
| 12 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 13 | The bulletin is unique among national galleries of art and is highly regarded , drawing as it does on the long standing interdisciplinary tradition of London 's National Gallery . |
| 14 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 15 | It swept round the long bend that carried the road towards the forest . |
| 16 | It comes in a long roll of 20m , and has a neat perforator which enables you to tear off a strip to the correct length . |