Example sentences of "[vb pp] into [art] 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 | 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 ? |
| 7 | It has turned into the longest slump since the 1930s because real interest rates have remained punitively high , squeezing millions of home-owners who over-reached themselves in the housing boom . |
| 8 | It was incorporated into the longer Carolingian prologue . |
| 9 | When the summer ripened into the long hot days of harvest , Davis sought an audience with Stephen . |
| 10 | Official figures released today prove that Britain is locked into the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hair was razor cut into a long bob and heavily tousled into shape . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Her hair , braided into a long plait which fell over one shoulder , looked dusty and lustreless . |
| 15 | Many species have the aperture flared , or extended into a long tube ( siphonate forms ) . |
| 16 | The road leading through the row of cottages extended into a long stretch of open country with lanes leading off it . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |