Example sentences of "into a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | One morning Jamie conducted him down two flights of stairs and into a long high apartment , like a baronial hall . |
| 2 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 3 | Mackey , an Australian scrum-half whose short contract Warrington are trying to turn into a long one , was a constant source of danger to Widnes , and provided the final pass to enable Mark Forster to score a try in Hulmes 's absence . |
| 4 | We pause again and swap passenger so that Nathan takes Tony round the edge of the peak into a long and narrow , and steep valley . |
| 5 | Painted red , of course , with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches , a recessed bonnet , a short roof tapering into a long , descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear . |
| 6 | And then the hour would turn into a long space of empty time , then into a whole evening , once even into an entire night before Gloria came back . |
| 7 | ‘ I use this for sticking pigs , ’ he said , giving me a mysterious smile , gesturing with the ugly blade across his uncovered throat , then laughing , flicking it shut and thrusting it into a long pocket in the side of his dusty black corduroys . |
| 8 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 9 | Biff was launching into a long , familiar complaint . |
| 10 | She crossed the road , dodging a limousine with a personalised number-plate , and squeezed into a long , thin pub called The Ship . |
| 11 | Many species have the aperture flared , or extended into a long tube ( siphonate forms ) . |
| 12 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 13 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 14 | A British orderly and a Polish civilian were pumping filth from one of the lavatories into a long cylindrical cart . |
| 15 | Once launched , it unrolls and inflates in space into a long sausage-skin full of low-pressure gas . |
| 16 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 17 | He grasped my elbow and led me through the hallway and into a long room knocked through the whole length of the house . |
| 18 | Walking makes you slim , builds cardiovascular fitness , and can develop into a long term habit that you can use for the rest of your life . |
| 19 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 20 | Do these exercises whilst looking into a long mirror and do them smoothly . |
| 21 | The road leading through the row of cottages extended into a long stretch of open country with lanes leading off it . |
| 22 | Another went into a long self-serving solo . |
| 23 | Arrowing into the sky , blasting the thin air behind him into a long trail of ionized particles , cracking the air and land below with the plane 's supersonic footprint , outflying anything or anybody they sent up in his wake . |
| 24 | Maggie now beckoned him towards her , and some what reluctantly he followed her along a short passage and into a long sun-lit kitchen , where a woman was standing at a wooden table mixing some ingredients in a bowl . |
| 25 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 26 | Knit a few stitches in a contrast colour into a long strip . |
| 27 | He launched into a long explanation , when I tackled him . |
| 28 | He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string . |
| 29 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 30 | He moves into a long attempt , which takes up the rest of the book , to revise the earlier ontology of Being and Nothingness into a new ontology of action and even of History , as if , after all , he is investigating the prospect of accrediting the latter with ontological status — a possibility which has always haunted his text in its insistent negation . |