Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] to [art] long " 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 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 3 | Louis , walking out to the long black car , was a sack of tears . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | We 'll be looking forward to the longest raft race in the world . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their congregations of ‘ Independents ’ were justly named in a society settling down to a long period of outward conformity and growing indifference to religion . |