Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 2 | DEC , Hewlett-Packard , Hitachi , IBM and Groupe Bull have already signed on for the event . |
| 3 | Just read on for us James please when you 've finished yawning . |
| 4 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 5 | A buffet style breakfast is also laid on for all our club Choice clients . |
| 6 | In addition to his school life and his theatrical life and his special coaching of the boys , he would play the organ in church ( not chapel : he was an Anglican ) and several times a week work with his boys in the Air Training Corps which he turned into one of the finest in the principality , often called on for show parades . |
| 7 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | Proceedings invariably dragged on for eighteen months . |
| 9 | The industry is still stuffed with excess capacity , mostly taken on for Big Bang and the freak year of boom that followed ( until the 1987 crash ) . |
| 10 | They 've dearly gone on for years not knowing , let alone tonsillectomies , what |
| 11 | Wearing the Lord of the Isles tartan , he used a crook to support the knee recently operated on for cartilage damage . |