Example sentences of "[vb pp] into long " in BNC.
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1 | The valleys of the choked and overflowing streams were speedily transformed into long stretches of bog , impassable except by a few well-defined tracks , which became marks for the enemy 's artillery . |
2 | They ate and drank , sitting tucked into long grass that screened them from the river ; they could hear the flow of it , and the occasional plop of a fish . |
3 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
4 | It was then razor cut into long graduated layers to give a full but very natural look . |
5 | Trilobites of Acidaspis type have thoracic segments extended into long spines , which also fringe the head and tail . |
6 | Resistance to flow in polymer systems is even greater , because now the molecules are covalently bonded into long chains which are coiled and entangled and translational motion must , of necessity , be a co-operative process . |
7 | In the forests of the Mesozoic there were large numbers of trees and shrubby plants that looked at first glance like palm trees , with leafless stems crowned with bouquets of stiff , large leaves , deeply divided into long , unbranched leaflets . |