Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long gallop to Radstock our two heroes then made their weary way back to Crediton where they made their final assault . |
| 2 | Before he 'd even put the head down after a long flight to Glasgow , Lindi was expressing his confidence about Monday 's outcome . |
| 3 | He saw Ras Tafari — later Haile Selassie - return from a great battle which was the beginning of a long road to Emperorship . |
| 4 | She was worried by the way he roamed about touching everything , and during a long chat to Mrs Allinson expressed her concern that he could not get on with anything , and could not write or read . |
| 5 | She had no idea , until then , why she was acting as she was , or what she suspected , or why , indeed , she should suspect anything but a straight pick-up , and one so simply and attractively engineered as to be quite unalarming ; a normal minor wolf on the prowl , with a long weekend to while away , and an eye cocked for congenial company , preferably intimate , but in any case gratifying . |
| 6 | In a long letter to Alston in 1737 Miller discussed classification of plants according to Tournefort , ‘ no person was ever more exact in all the Synonimes , . |
| 7 | ( In a long letter to Hester Thrale on 30 September , written from Ostig on Skye , he remarked with a different emphasis : ‘ Barley broath [ sic ] is a constant dish , and is made well in every house . |
| 8 | In a long reply to Dunlop and Tarshis , Keynes ( 1939 ) listed a number of possible explanations for the apparently procyclical behaviour of real wages . |
| 9 | Despite my closeness over a long period to Harold Wilson , I was certainly not close to his publicised cronies . |
| 10 | Dismounted , the leaders crossed over the first and second drawbridges on foot , leaving their men to take the horses down a long ramp to barracks-quarters and stabling at harbour level . |