Example sentences of "on and [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 2 | One of the direct results of science and technology has been an increase in production , and a ‘ spin-off ’ or yield of such things as anaesthetics , principles of bacteriology and immunology and hygiene , better control of health and illness , the provision of machines to do what women and children were earlier forced to do , cheaper paper , vast presses to permit the masses to read , followed by other mass media , much better conditions in homes and factories and cities — and on and on in a never-ending list . |
| 3 | He 'd had them on and off for the past couple of weeks . |
| 4 | The lights flickered on and off for the last dance . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | With precise control both units can be set to operate on and off at the same setting with consequent better heat distribution . |
| 7 | That misconception had continued on and off over the following six or seven years . |
| 8 | A niggling hip injury , which has troubled him on and off over the past year and hampered his preparation , was closer to the root of his troubles than any age-related downswing . |
| 9 | A particular variant of special deposits , used on and off during the 1970s , was supplementary special deposits ( ‘ the corset ’ ) . |
| 10 | The charm he switches on and off like an electric fire . |
| 11 | She switches them on and off like the electric light . ’ |