Example sentences of "it [verb] a long [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I , I would think the black and the white were one , but mind you it goes a long blinking way do n't it ? |
| 2 | It has a long half life and may be administered either orally or intravenously . |
| 3 | The building is an exciting example of 1909 — lo Art Deco , using a wide range of materials including brick , and it has a long glass gallery at roof level . |
| 4 | It proposed a long term strategy to " release the energies of ordinary people by enabling them to take charge of their lives " , noting that agriculture remained the " primary foundation for growth " and emphasizing food security rather than food self-sufficiency . |
| 5 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 6 | This was the theory that it kept a Long Kesh compound filled with loyalists as a propaganda exercise to impress observers outside Ulster that it was acting impartially towards both the British loyalist and the Irish republican community . |
| 7 | It took a long helicopter ride to Norway to treat him , and he can no longer dive or even walk without a limp . |
| 8 | It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east . |