the call ran on for hours : CONTINUE, go on, carry on, last, keep going, stretch.
your mother does run on : TALK INCESSANTLY, talk a lot, go on, chatter on, ramble on; informal yak, gab, yabber; Brit. informal rabbit on, witter on, chunter on, talk the hind leg off a donkey; N. Amer. informal run off at the mouth.
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