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 . |