Example sentences of "to a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All wear the same type of loose shroud , a garment similar to a long nightshirt with draw-strings at the neck and wrists and a cuff deep enough to cover the hand while leaving the fingers exposed . |
| 2 | Henry passed her some thin , crustless brown bread and butter and listened to a long story about fox-hunting . |
| 3 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 4 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 5 | All that now remains is a single tower , a poor monument to a long history of noble residences on the site . |
| 6 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
| 7 | Influenced by a wide range of illustrators and painters , from William Blake to Chagall , his work introduces the young reader to a long tradition of Western art . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rey was probably heir to a long tradition in the matter of prompting : no prompt-box can be seen in the illustrations from the 1747 Palais-Royal performance ( illus.s ) or the 1745 Versailles performance ( illus.3 ) . |
| 10 | During his years of experimentation , Alexander was led to a long consideration of the whole question of direction . |
| 11 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 12 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 13 | As for Miguel , he would treat her to a long stare with those soulful eyes and mutter something she did not understand . |
| 14 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ And if Carole Swan were here , ’ said Mrs Cartwright , adding a petits four to a long meal of wrong-doing , ‘ she would be able to tell you about what he did to her daughter Grace . |
| 16 | As an Irish prime minister once said after listening to a long debate between his cabinet colleagues : ‘ I understand how it works in practice . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | King Edward VII and his Consort , Alexandra , were able to influence international events , particularly in Europe , which continued to be the predominant continent and Britain looked forward to a long period of peaceful influence . |
| 19 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With a solar-type star , however , the temperature rises to ten million degrees or so , and nuclear reactions are triggered off , so that the star settles down to a long period of stable existence . |
| 22 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 23 | Buddhists believe that Gautama the Buddha was the successor to a long line of earlier Buddhas , all distinguished by shrewdness , wisdom , love or sacrifice . |
| 24 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm angry because — because you think you can add me to a long line of women notched on your belt . |
| 26 | Barbara Todd , executive secretary to a long line of senior managers , retired on 3 July 1992 . |
| 27 | Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor . |
| 28 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 29 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 30 | We dropped down from the Spa to a long stretch of empty beach and the sergeant shouted " " Right , sprint to those rocks ! |