Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | well February I suppose , by the time it goes to long |
| 2 | Laws swings it in flicked away Gemmell gets it back and now Pearce Black outside him and it goes in long towards Collimore . |
| 3 | He sat in shirt-sleeved , patriarchal majesty and his spreading , black waistcoat ( the shiny back of it cracked in long lines ) was strung with an impressive gold watch-chain , of the style favoured by Victorian pit-owners . |
| 4 | Since it results in long operation code fields , full bit significance is not used for operation code assignment , except at the microprogram level discussed in 3.6 . |
| 5 | Not only had I had that run in with him over the rehearsals but he was also the fussiest teacher in the school when it came to long hair . |
| 6 | ‘ In 1986 , when the International Whaling Commission banned all commercial whaling worldwide , it seemed at long last the whales were saved . |
| 7 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 8 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 9 | When a child asks a question about something dropping from a height — does it get faster and it falls for longer and longer ? — that probably is a question that most teachers who are not trained in the physical sciences just can not answer . |
| 10 | ‘ It went on longer than I expected . ’ |
| 11 | She let it rest for longer than she should have done and then moved slightly away . |