Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] on a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a lot of space , which is needed on a long tour ! |
| 2 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 3 | They are borne on a long , stout , fleshy leaf-stalk . |
| 4 | The other half wants to hang dependent clauses ; like ‘ Americans will tell anything to an Englishman with a camera poking over his right shoulder when they are trapped on a long distance train . ’ |
| 5 | Maybe it was close behind them and they were embarking on a long exhausting journey all the way around the Waste to reach what was near at their backs . |
| 6 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |