Example sentences of "on for the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it went on for the first 14 years of their friendship . |
| 2 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |
| 3 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 4 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 5 | Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades . |
| 6 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 7 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 8 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 9 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 10 | Watching on for the past few weeks have been a small handful of experts , among them Jim Railton of The Times , who 's been following the Boat Race for twenty years . |
| 11 | The whole thing becomes one fluid manoeuvre with power on for the maximum possible time . |
| 12 | In the U K the improvement plans we 've been working on for the last two years have been very successfully implemented but they 've been overtaken by the U K recession . |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking about coming on for the last five minutes when we were 2-0 down , to get a bit of glory , but the legs would n't let me , ’ he joked . |
| 14 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 15 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |