Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] a long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 2 | Here thieves removed a picture from the wall and police believe they then walked out with it hidden under a long raincoat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 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 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 11 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 12 | 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 . |