Example sentences of "went [prep] a long [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After returning the van to the hire company , I went for a long walk in Hyde Park . |
| 2 | The next day he went for a long walk , about 20 miles , during which he did a good deal of clear thinking in the mountains . |
| 3 | But we went for a long walk and Ally started talking about his work in a way I had n't heard before . |
| 4 | I put on my coat and went for a long walk on the moor . |
| 5 | I went through a long period of thinking of having him adopted . |
| 6 | They went up a long hill and came to an imposing arched entrance . |
| 7 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 8 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 9 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 10 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 11 | He went on a long journey , was weary , worn-out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 12 | He went on a long journey , was weary worn out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 13 | We went down a long corridor to a door bearing a sign ‘ Latvia pilot operation ’ . |