Example sentences of "[prep] it [prep] [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likely any car would have traces of it for a long time . |
| 2 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 3 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 4 | He wrote this book , he started Traidcraft off , he was the person who was i his brainchild , he was the driving force behind it for a long time . |
| 5 | Sticking with it for the long haul , typically 5–7 years . |
| 6 | It 's great , cos the water 's warm , and I fill up the sink and keep my hands in it for a long time . |
| 7 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 8 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
| 9 | He has n't been in it for a long time . |
| 10 | A company is treated as an associated undertaking when the group holds a substantial interest in it for the long term , and exercises a significant influence over its operating and financial policy decisions . |
| 11 | Institutionally it was shaken almost to pieces , and certainly out of the torpor that had descended upon it in the long aftermath of the Counter Reformation and the seventeenth-century wars of religion , by the reverberations of the Revolution with their deeply anti-religious and anti-traditional note . |
| 12 | We all lived on top of each other and at any time one of us was probably irritated in some way by one of the others , but Tom seemed to hold on to it for a long time , never expressing his resentment until he just flipped into despising somebody . |
| 13 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 15 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 16 | Well , in my observation , as regards young boys , it er th they played could play them up , the lads would play pranks on the teacher , who would put the best on it for a long time . |
| 17 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 18 | machine until Monday and then though we 'll take him off , of course being on it for a long period |
| 19 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 20 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 21 | That 's what I I 've thought about it for a long |
| 22 | But he does n't do anything about it for a long time . |
| 23 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
| 24 | Well think about it for a long time |
| 25 | It may be expensive , but is worth it in the long run . |
| 26 | It 's expensive but worth it in the long run . |
| 27 | She stared down at it for a long time . |
| 28 | I can not be sure that he noticed all that , but he stared at it for a long time , getting down on his hands . |
| 29 | Jazz looked at it for a long time , then he propped it back against the lamp , and turned the light out . |
| 30 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |