Example sentences of "[adv prt] on long " in BNC.

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1 I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ?
2 Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits .
3 If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe .
4 He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained .
5 It would only be if somebody was off on long term sickness or
6 The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation .
7 He and Eva went out on long walks together , or to the cinema at the ICA to see Scorsese films and exhibitions of dirty nappies .
8 The coffee cups were all laid out on long white-napped tables , and waiters hovered over the silver urn , dispensing coffee to a few early arrivals .
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