Example sentences of "[v-ing] on a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 2 | If you 're going on a long journey alone , plan your route in advance using main roads as far as possible . |
| 3 | I 'm sure your husband appreciated from afar the care and ‘ antics ’ of you and your friends , the personal and loving touch that one would give to any loved one going on a long journey . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been going on a long time , Elaine . |
| 5 | As you know , the two of them have become good friends , and are going on a long holiday together . |
| 6 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 7 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 8 | He was getting nearer to himself , travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the start of a thing that 's sweet , ’ he told Tom one evening drawing on a long pipe filled with the first pluckings of their own tobacco . |
| 10 | Willie was kneeling on a chair absorbed in books , his elbows resting on a long wooden table . |
| 11 | He was standing against one of the walls of the bedroom , one elbow resting on a long teak shelf which at one time must have contained books , but was now bare , resting his head against the palm of his raised hand in an attitude of relaxation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hoccleve now apologises for his earlier attitude and welcomes his help , embarking on a long exposition of his case . |
| 14 | However , you will still need to get used to wearing them before embarking on a long trek . |
| 15 | Thus , the draftsman should be especially careful before embarking on a long list of matters that fall within a particular covenant . |
| 16 | Working on a long lawn , she wanted them to move down the ‘ room ’ . |