Example sentences of "to a long [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What would you say to a long leisurely cruise ? ’ |
| 2 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 3 | A rectangular coil is located parallel to a long straight current-carrying wire as shown in Fig. 4.19 . |
| 4 | Then they are playing a semi-blind second shot to a long narrow green , where deft perfection is crucial . |
| 5 | He took him to a long narrow room in the cellars of the law courts , where phone-taps were carried out . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | On Nov. 19 a French court ordered René Bousquet , a former police chief under the Vichy regime , to be tried for war crimes in an ordinary criminal court [ see p. 37899 ] , after overturning a ruling by the prosecutor-general 's office which had sent the case to a long defunct Special High Court of Liberation . |
| 9 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 10 | He had a narrow mournful face , tapering to a long pointed chin . |
| 11 | Clive Kemp 's suggestion that she join him on a cruise across the Mediterranean had seemed the perfect antidote to a long hard winter , a series of temping jobs which had been more demanding than usual , and the unpleasantness of her break-up with Giles . |
| 12 | Couville rose and went across to a long leaden tube . |
| 13 | Vic threads the tunnels , switches lanes , swings out on to a long covered ramp that leads to a six-lane expressway thrust like a gigantic concrete fist through the backstreets of his boyhood . |
| 14 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |