Example sentences of "into a long [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 2 | The driving force behind the transactional approach with which we undertake a study of the fans is , of course , Howard Becker , and although this is not the place to enter into a long discussion of his contribution to a more radical sociology , some brief attention must be given to his work ( Becker , 1963 ) . |
| 3 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 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 | The road leading through the row of cottages extended into a long stretch of open country with lanes leading off it . |
| 8 | He put several grenades in the coat pocket , and a machine gun into a long pocket inside the coat . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if he thought one of the girls did n't know what he was doing , he 'd go into a long explanation of why he had n't actually tasted the stuff . |
| 11 | If the nest is attached by one side to a leaf , its support is clearly lop-sided , in which case the hummingbird may weave small particles of earth into a long extension of the nest , dangling beneath , to act as counterweights and level it . |
| 12 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |