Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] to a long " in BNC.
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1 | He led me to a long , low building . |
2 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
3 | Damian led her to a long dark blue velvet sofa and ordered a bottle of Laurent-Perrier champagne , which was brought to their table in a silver ice-bucket . |
4 | Guido treated her to a long look between narrowed dark eyes . |
5 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
6 | Later , in my cabin , I treated myself to a long , languorous Omnipure sauna before turning at last to the task of choosing my outfit for the meeting with the Emissary . |
7 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |