Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 2 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 3 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 4 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 5 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 6 | The most renowned of the family was Reginald who won international fame as a collector of rare and exotic plants from the countries of the Far East and whose name lives on in several of his discoveries . |
| 7 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 8 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 9 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 10 | He was speaking from a mind full of ideas and images , which all offered insight in varying ways , which he sought to reflect on over several years . |
| 11 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 12 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 13 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 14 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 15 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 16 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 17 | Sussex 's most remarkable Saxon church , Sompting , illustrates well the process of extension and adaptation which went on over several centuries , and particularly as South Saxon society reached its peak before Norman infiltration . |
| 18 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 19 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |
| 20 | Stephen put out his hand and a reluctant Paul Richardson , egged on by several friends , walked slowly forward . |
| 21 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 22 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |