Example sentences of "on for [art] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 2 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 3 | I tell you what I 'll do — I 'll pop downstairs and put the kettle on for a good cup of tea . ’ |
| 4 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 5 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 6 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 9 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 10 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 11 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 12 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 13 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | The purpose of having a timetable is so that all relevant information can be digested and acted upon , and so that bids do not carry on for an unreasonable length of time . |
| 22 | Intel 's Michael Pope said the the AST Manhattan was spot on for an emerging market for what he termed shrink wrapped servers — application server sold with pre-installed operating system and database software . |
| 23 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And a battle is on for the divided loyalties of the younger McCloskey brothers , Jonathon and Martin . |
| 27 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | One , an innings of 499 : the other , a knock which went on for the little matter of 970 minutes . |