Example sentences of "[verb] on for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 2 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 3 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 4 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 5 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 6 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 7 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 8 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 9 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 10 | In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years . |
| 11 | Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 13 | Memphis signed on for the subsequent tour and expanded the exhibition , featuring the Rameses Colossus in the 1987 showing in the Memphis Cook Convention Center . |
| 14 | The last I heard Trish was going to become a teacher , I mean I I we are supposed to be trying to think about whether we can have a sh a panel that we of people that we can call on for the short term crisis appointments or whatever , but |
| 15 | They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions . |
| 16 | There was one in this show when Charity Barnum 's understudy went on for the first time . |
| 17 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you know , before this I went out and bought Tesco 's own-brand baked beans to live on for the next month , ’ she remarked , rather unconvincingly . |
| 19 | Of course not , they 've been elected for a period , they serve to the end of that period , whether they 're made redundant or not , so they go on for the four year term . |
| 20 | At least two departments in France will be focussed on for the detailed investigation of home owners . |
| 21 | The light will be left on for the whole time . |
| 22 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 23 | The specifications of November 1939 became a reality just 43 years ago , when a CW pump evacuated model with sealing wax joints was switched on for the first time at the end of February 1940 , and operated successfully . |
| 24 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 25 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 26 | Er , we have approximately sixty boys signed on for the three teams , all of whom come from the Ottery area . |
| 27 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 28 | As the military mutiny dragged on for the sixth day , President Corazon Aquino asked Filipinos to ‘ join hands and consolidate our resources to rebuild what we have destroyed ’ . |
| 29 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 30 | In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety . |