Example sentences of "and [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 2 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 3 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 4 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
| 5 | and he 'd been a Liverpool councillor off and on for over fifty years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been canoeing off and on for about ten years , but this is my first venture on the open sea , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Comprehensively equipped with electric windows ( one touch up and down for the driver ) , central locking power mirrors and so on , the finish reflects the fact that they take a bit of trouble up in Sunderland . |
| 8 | I stretch for at least 10 minutes every morning and try to warm up and down for running and cycling . |
| 9 | His ball bounced through the back of the green and he did n't get up and down for a birdie . |
| 10 | ‘ You mean to say that you go out in all weathers — hail , rain–snow , sunshine — and run up and down for nothing ? ’ |
| 11 | The day began like any other , except that the bells of St James 's Church seemed to peal with more exhilaration than they ever did on a Sunday , and Sarah pictured the ringers jumping up and down for joy at the ends of their stout ropes . |
| 12 | Up and down for Russell and me |
| 13 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
| 14 | Initially I found the switch confusing , assuming it worked in the ( to me , obvious ) sense up for out and down for in . |
| 15 | A close-up crotch shot will eventually do little more than remind the reader that sex without affection is merely moving your legs up and down for a bit and then stopping . |
| 16 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
| 17 | He walks up and down for a while outside , unable to settle to the prospect of going to bed . |
| 18 | For it was in such fashion that lovers talked , Rosa knew , from the Mass on certain feast days : King Solomon became languid with love as he searched up and down for his beloved , whose breasts were like a young doe and her belly a heap of wheat . |
| 19 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
| 20 | There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it . |
| 21 | Sally-Anne could have jumped up and down for joy . |
| 22 | He was a Hollywood man , used to having huge cranes going up and down for musicals . ’ |
| 23 | It is mowed by one man walking up and down for 54 green miles . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure about that but I am sure that the relative strength of a South African side is the subject of heated debate all over the rugby world and , depending on who you speak to , the ‘ Boks are either the true World Champions or a collection of dinosaurs , hopelessly out of touch with the modern game and in for a rude awakening . |
| 25 | Six times he has burst into the line and over for a try . |
| 26 | Clinton had cast himself as the candidate of new economic opportunity and appealed over and over for voters to summon the ‘ courage to change ’ by electing him and running mate Al Gore . |
| 27 | She fucked him with enthusiasm , they laughed , they did it again and again — on and off for years . |
| 28 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 29 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 30 | Speaking last night from the motel in Kelowna , 400 miles north of Vancouver , where she has lived on and off for the last three years , Mrs Allan said : ‘ I am not coming home until I have got my child . |