Example sentences of "[verb] to a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ipswich 's other newcomer , German Andre Pollehn , will also be missing as he is committed to a long track meeting in his own country that day . |
| 2 | The press release also pronounced Christmas trading to be ‘ excellent ’ , and said that both Waterstones and Harrods were now committed to a long and successful relationship . |
| 3 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 4 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 5 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 6 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 7 | According to a long and dominant tradition , the physical is bound up with the spatial . |
| 8 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 9 | Depending on where your drive ends up you will face a tricky second shot to a long , narrow green . |
| 10 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 11 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 12 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 13 | The meandering reminiscence of boarding-school rituals is like being forced to listen to a long , pointless story about an acquaintance 's childhood . |
| 14 | However , since only the continued path from naming can be matched to a long word , the path from name is discontinued ( without storing the short word he on the word graph ) . |
| 15 | If there are several competing paths , only those paths that can be matched to long words are continued , and a short word will only be retrieved from the buffer if none of the possible paths can be matched to a long word . |
| 16 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 17 | Round the back you would step out on to a paved patio , leading to a long garden overlooking a field . |
| 18 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 19 | The Bethnal Greeners of the 1950s who believed that to live together was an invitation to ‘ open conflict ’ belonged to a long tradition . |
| 20 | He had a narrow mournful face , tapering to a long pointed chin . |
| 21 | Typical of these is the Welsh three-course rotation : oats , either autumn or spring sown ; followed by mangolds or swedes ; and then barley undersown to a long ley . |
| 22 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 23 | Emily guided Mungo through a gate at the side which led to a long , overgrown garden with a large , unsteady-looking wooden shed at the bottom . |
| 24 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 25 | Never one to let a lack of cash stand in his way , Desmond persuaded the liquidator to agree to a long closing — i.e. to wait for his money until UPH had re-sold the site . |
| 26 | Actually it is wrong to think that your present diet will necessarily lead to a long and productive life . |
| 27 | This will lead to a long deba debate . |
| 28 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 29 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 30 | It was a natural response to the advent of nuclear weapons to concentrate on means of limiting or even abolishing them ; and this response has led to a long series of arms control and disarmament negotiations at Geneva and elsewhere . |