Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After clocking on for a night shift they did not start work immediately but went instead to the canteen for a cup of tea . |
| 2 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 3 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 4 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 5 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 6 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 7 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 8 | The weather was still warm and sunny , though , an Indian summer that looked like stretching on for a few more days yet . |
| 9 | Those candidates exercise their freedoms and I defend those freedoms — If the freedoms which Conservative Members say they want to uphold were so widespread , they would not only define freedom in terms of the power to own shares in a company but would seek to defend it in terms of being able to get a job in that company , in a country with getting on for 2.5 million unemployed . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 12 | This improvement was substantial : from slightly worse than myopic on the first attempt , the average improved to getting on for 40% of the difference between the optimal and the myopic on the second . |
| 13 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 14 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 15 | I think the , this is quite well illustrated by the figures on employees , where the numbers employed fell by getting on for ten percent , though our spending on employees remained about the same , partly as a result of pay increases , partly also , as a result of changes in the profile of grades of the staff at the Council , and a movement towards better staff , better paid , and then finally the saving we make each year as turnover of staff occurs , and we do n't have to pay salaries during the handover period from one person to another , that saving that has reduced because the turnover of staff has reduced . |
| 16 | Wicketkeeper Adam Parore delayed Sri Lanka 's victory bid by holding on for 223 minutes for a Test-best 60 . |