Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crossed the road , dodging a limousine with a personalised number-plate , and squeezed into a long , thin pub called The Ship . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The look-out towers were provided with clocks , and the fortified entrance was turned into a long porte cochère with projecting canopies . |
| 4 | If I 'm very lucky , she thought , I might just avoid being turned into a long smear of guts and blood . |
| 5 | It had originally been a short par 4 , but had been turned into a long par 3 . |
| 6 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her hair , braided into a long plait which fell over one shoulder , looked dusty and lustreless . |
| 9 | Many species have the aperture flared , or extended into a long tube ( siphonate forms ) . |
| 10 | The road leading through the row of cottages extended into a long stretch of open country with lanes leading off it . |
| 11 | Although it is true that more people would have contracted serious illnesses of a type which have now been eradicated — especially tuberculosis , which struck large numbers of people ( women more frequently than men ) throughout the nineteenth century — very few people would have survived into a long and infirm old age ( Johansson , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |