Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] long " in BNC.

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1 He dealt with it either by going off on long trips or by challenging it and then an argument might erupt , ’ Jane explained .
2 As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them .
3 People were going round with long faces looking glum right until Christmas Eve .
4 In a touring boat we want long powerful strokes to go fast over long distances .
5 Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs .
6 He turned away , apparently satisfied , then pushed the glasses back into his pocket , flashed the torch briefly down at the rough stones of the pier , and went away with long strides in the direction of the house .
7 If astronauts go off on long journeys , in any direction in three-dimensional space , they 'll get to the boundary of our universe .
8 ‘ So you go home to Long Island once a month , ’ said Harvey .
9 Mountbatten missed Charles enormously when he went off on long trips and felt lonely and deprived without his increasingly regular visits .
10 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 .
11 Alan came back most weekends , and they went out for long drives in his father 's car .
12 Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ?
13 He was crazy about New York and went there for long weekends .
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