Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 2 | That owes much to the long prosperity of California 's economy and its ( until now ) robust property market . |
| 3 | ‘ Returning now to the Long Stable , we enter the Upper Paddock , and first observe a hot-water apparatus , so arranged as to supply practically a constant supply . |
| 4 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 5 | Trainer Jimmy Etherington , who submitted a ‘ friendly ’ claim of £9,354 to ensure taking the filly back to Yorkshire , is now looking forward to a long winter 's break when the turf season closes on Monday . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's why we did not get tied up to a long deal before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I go over to the long mirror and have a look . |
| 14 | Penelope went over to the long mirror to survey the general effect of her dress . |
| 15 | Alexandra went over to the long glass on a mahogany frame that stood in the bow window and looked at herself . |
| 16 | The courtyard was no longer floodlit but the moon was brilliant , filling the room with light , and Maggie slid from her bed and went quickly to the long window that led to the veranda . |
| 17 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 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 | After a long time I heard him get up and come over to the long wall , near to where I was sitting listlessly in the arm-chair . |
| 20 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |
| 21 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |