Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , she went on to live a long life , enjoyed the notoriety , and used it to advantage in the family business , exploiting rumours of her Evil Eye to scare off creditors , and to get the best out of every bargain . ’ |
| 2 | She went on to catalogue a long history of disasters : from her mother dying when she was six years old , through to the latest traumas of seeing her cat killed by a car and being made redundant . |
| 3 | He then went on to provide a long list , not of items that we could accept , but of items that we could not accept . |
| 4 | I ignored it and carried on taking a long break . |
| 5 | The following morning our team of John , a theology student from a Jesuit College who talked like Derek Nimmo in All Gas and Gaiters , James , a British Telecom engineer ( useful ) and I , set off to follow a long and complicated trail across Colchester . |