Example sentences of "on [prep] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
2 | But the imbalance grows on you , even if structurally it may not be such a good idea , since some very squat buttresses on the left-hand or north wall had to be built on during a partial restoration of the building in the last century . |
3 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
4 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
5 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
6 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
7 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
8 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
9 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
10 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
11 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
12 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
13 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
14 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
15 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
16 | Finally they reached home and tried to put the kettle on for a welcome cup of tea — to discover their water had been cut off . |
17 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
18 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
19 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
20 | Whatever his personal misgivings , Valenzuela hid them well and when his compulsory military service ended he signed on for a permanent career in the Air Force . |
21 | And you 'd all got to get on , and stay on for a little while without touching the floor , then you could have another go . |
22 | Anyway , he waffled on for a little while about everything that did n't matter and then … ’ she swallowed ‘ … then he got down to it and told me about everything that did . ’ |
23 | Democracy in industry , or , more broadly , at the work place , is an idea that has often been discussed , but with a few exceptions ( including Yugoslavia to some extent ) has hardly as yet been embarked on as a serious practice in most societies . |
24 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
25 | Mr Hay left out the experienced campaigners Karen Brown , Vickey Dixon and Jane Sixsmith from the starting line-up , though Sixsmith came on as a late substitute for Joanne Menown . |
26 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
27 | Jettisoning Shakespeare , and talking in a ludicrous mixture of Italian and heavily accented English , he comes on as a hilarious parody of a libidinous Latin , pinching handbags from the audience , flogging dodgy cassette tapes and offering healing laughter after all the grief of the earlier acts . |
28 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
29 | The Otago CA , like other sporting bodies , was moved publicly to urge young men to enlist ( each man who did was kept on as a financial member of the association for the duration ) . |
30 | Mr Maxwell , who lives in Oxfordshire , has been taken on as a part-time consultant for the London recruitment agency , Morgan Chase Associates . |