Example sentences of "for a long [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | which again has been used for a long time on animals . |
| 6 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 7 | They sat for a long time on brown plastic seats in a white corridor . |
| 8 | The fact that hippies were so violently apolitical inspired a lot of my polemics for a long time on Oz . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 12 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |