Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [art] long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sounded utterly preposterous but it led to a longer silence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We just were n't used to driving in the country then , it seemed like a long way from |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It had to first of all survive which is why it went on the long march was n't it ? |
| 7 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 8 | It swept round the long bend that carried the road towards the forest . |