Example sentences of "[coord] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Then contact either on or on for further details . |
2 | Wrap the bandage around the injured limb , then spiral it up or down for one turn . |
3 | Time I got approximately though on or off for all |
4 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
5 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
6 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
7 | I walked up and down for two or three minutes , then I said : ‘ Henry , go back to these men . |
8 | He strolled up and down for five minutes then , on the dot of ten , dropped the fat envelope through the letter-box of the apartment-house . |
9 | She walked up and down for some time , looking and sniffing , but not touching , and he waited by the door in the shadows and watched her . |
10 | It is mowed by one man walking up and down for 54 green miles . |
11 | You can either run some contrast knit rows between each sample , or cast on and off for each one . |
12 | ‘ Thursday : More ‘ set discussions ’ ; I 'm dragging a chair on and off for each sketch : ‘ Re:Pickfords ’ , I mentally mutter . |
13 | Jazzbeaux had been wearing them on and off for two days . |
14 | We were lovers on and off for three years . |
15 | She lived here on and off for three years . |
16 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
17 | But , apart from a winter break , whatever is planned around the 23rd relates to one specific plan or association which has been on and off for several months and is now back on again . |
18 | These devices can be set by you to switch lights on and off for determined periods while you are away from home . |
19 | A 30 year old woman presented with asthma which she had on and off for 3 years . |
20 | ‘ Having studied these on and off for some days , what is your opinion ? ’ |
21 | There are ways in and out for any who are determined to pass . ’ |
22 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
23 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
24 | And then home for five weeks and back for another two weeks . |
25 | My experience is almost entirely confined to patients of 65 years and under for practical reasons . |
26 | All workers are assumed to have continuous twice differentiable ( indirect ) utility of income functions , denoted by where denotes the net wage , which is given by w for non-unionists and by for paid-up unionists . |
27 | You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable , if you like , they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman , I was with him for twelve weeks . |
28 | Bikers get more out of life , so climb down off your exercycle and get out and about for some fresh air . |