Example sentences of "[verb] into [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A multitude of pillars and white domes , clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light . " |
| 2 | She crossed the road , dodging a limousine with a personalised number-plate , and squeezed into a long , thin pub called The Ship . |
| 3 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 4 | He usually bedded down on newspapers and covered himself with an old blanket which he sometimes left in the porch , ready for the next night , and sometimes took away , rolled into a long wad and tied around his stomach with string . |
| 5 | Biff was launching into a long , familiar complaint . |
| 6 | Can I also say that the erm the fear expressed about Woolwich , I believe to be fairly well founded Woolwich building , a Woolwich er , Building Society had been on erm , entered into a long time ago on this erm and the letter that was read out at Potter Street area committee from Woolwich indicated that they had n't yet decided whether they would proceed and er I think is I 've talked to the publican since they have promised us an answer this week er we are intending , we have spoken , Dermot 's also spoken to our managing director we are confident we will have an answer from this week and I have to tell you that I think the answer will either no , or it will be so hazy that we 'll need to take some action and make a decision . |
| 7 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
| 8 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |
| 9 | We have here a wide , flat valley filled with sediment passing into a long parallel-sided sea reminiscent of many ancient sedimentary troughs . |
| 10 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 11 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 12 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 13 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 14 | Do these exercises whilst looking into a long mirror and do them smoothly . |
| 15 | By the time she turned into the long street to her flat , however , she had herself under control . |
| 16 | As they came up into the May morning he hopped over the ditch and skipped into the long grass as blithe as a squirrel . |
| 17 | She pulled a shimmering gold evening dress out of a box and held it in front of her , gazing into the long mirror as if she loved the combination of woman and gown . |
| 18 | He did not have time to check his mirrors for police cars as he passed All Hallows-on-the-Wall and plunged into the long straight canyon of London Wall . |
| 19 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 20 | When the summer ripened into the long hot days of harvest , Davis sought an audience with Stephen . |
| 21 | A dapper stranger ( John Berger ) hoves into view and launches into a long , rather tedious yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a Communist Party dance . |
| 22 | This lies on top of a buttress cliff which forms the turning corner of the lake 's south shore , which here swings into a long south-pointing branch , the Urner See . |
| 23 | Walking makes you slim , builds cardiovascular fitness , and can develop into a long term habit that you can use for the rest of your life . |
| 24 | Pour into a long glass and top with soda . |
| 25 | Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left . |
| 26 | Painted red , of course , with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches , a recessed bonnet , a short roof tapering into a long , descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear . |
| 27 | The door closed on them slowly ; they thinned into a long , faint strand of light and vanished , and everything was dark , dark for three days ; except that now there was no way of distinguishing night from day , and time , like hope and pleasure and companionship and all the human things it measured , had stopped . |
| 28 | Question time , which might be used to investigate major issues of general public interest , degenerates into a long series of requests for information about individual cases : 333 out of the 357 questions put to the Minister for Social Welfare in October and November 1983 fell into this category . |
| 29 | Mackey , an Australian scrum-half whose short contract Warrington are trying to turn into a long one , was a constant source of danger to Widnes , and provided the final pass to enable Mark Forster to score a try in Hulmes 's absence . |
| 30 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |