Example sentences of "[prep] a long [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter and Paul , Yeadon died in Leeds Infirmary after a long illness on October 24th . |
| 2 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
| 3 | AFTER a long discourse on our economic ills on a commercial radio station , there was a break for the adverts — Italian furniture , French food , Japanese cars and a chain of Indian restaurants . |
| 4 | It 's old ladies who show all the signs of a long life on subsistence , though they would n't necessarily see themselves as having been poor , because their husbands were n't necessarily poor . |
| 5 | It 's a hell of a long wire on that phone int it ? |
| 6 | His morning swims at the Queen Mother Leisure Centre in Victoria are a vital part of his training which he describes as ‘ a treat for my body after the running ’ and , like many other runners , he will go out for a long run on a Sunday . |
| 7 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 8 | Rosemary had been to Venice and seen the original bridge , and she enthused for a long time on the beauties of that city and how much she would like to go there again after the war was over . |
| 9 | She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit . |
| 10 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 11 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 12 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 13 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 14 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |
| 15 | They looked as if they had been dressed in a hurry and not very suitably for a long walk on the headland , even in a warm autumn . |
| 16 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 17 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
| 18 | That was after he accused Berkeley 's Philosophy Professor of having ‘ idiotic ’ notions during a long debate on whether computers will ‘ think ’ like people in three centuries hence . |
| 19 | the historical biography of the relationship between carer and cared for : how far was it possible for people with a long history on one particular level to relate to each other on a level of physical intimacy , faced with the disgust that caring often demands . |
| 20 | The characteristic cottage was brick-built on two storeys with a long window on the upper floor where the wooden frame stood to give the operator maximum light . |
| 21 | My Treatise on the Novel , with a long essay on Ivy 's novels , appeared just as I was leaving England , and she wrote her gratitude to me in Egypt . |
| 22 | When the solar wind encounters the magnetic field of a planet it has the effect of compressing the planetary field on the ‘ upwind ’ side , and of trailing it out into a long magnetotail on the ‘ downwind ’ side . |
| 23 | There , he opened the case , took a trowel from it , and began to dig up bulb after bulb from a long flower-bed on the other side of a path near the fence . |
| 24 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 25 | In a long briefing on the country 's military situation , General Ulomi said the Afghan army has proved since the Soviet withdrawal it is too powerful to be defeated and that the military option pursued by Pakistan and the US will fail . |
| 26 | But among those with special achievements to their credit were the branches at Knebworth ( Hertfordshire ) , Kelvedon , Manningtree and Wivenhoe ( Essex ) , all of which published village histories during 1953–54 ; at Hemel Hempstead which duplicated and sold Welfare and the State , the log-book of weekly discussions in a Long Terminal on ‘ Economic and Social Problems ’ held in 1956–57 ; at Linton ( Cambridgeshire ) which followed up a music course by helping to launch the Linton Music Festival in July 1957 , destined to become an annual event ; and at Colchester where a Tutorial on archaeology from 1955 to 1958 led to the formation of the Colchester Archaeological Group . |
| 27 | ‘ The answer to both your questions is yes , ’ she told the girl sitting at a long table on the far side of the room . |