Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But United embarked on what Mr Ferguson dubbed ‘ kamikaze football ’ against City and ended up hanging on desperately for a point . |
| 2 | ‘ Can you hang on here for a few moments ? ’ |
| 3 | okay Now hold , hold on just for a moment . |
| 4 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 5 | Well she chunters on just for the sake of talking ! |
| 6 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 7 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 8 | Rose walked on thoughtfully for a bit , then she turned to Hilary and said : ‘ You went to see your mother last week , did n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | But if I can move on just for a second , erm when you get over and above that , we have problems where people that are purchasing those sort of vehicles can not afford , with the best will in the world , to take them in to the main agents and have a full service , although they should do , but if you ca n't afford to do that and these are the problems that we had , so we actually changed that . |
| 10 | I think if Shrewsbury can hold on now for the next five or six or seven minutes they could be alright . |
| 11 | Bodie said , ‘ I think I 'd like to hang on here for a bit . ’ |
| 12 | And er , we oh usually I could get on there for a , you , you can get erm I think it was a four-way ticket for threepence down the town . |
| 13 | Tomorrow I shall be asking three or four salient witnesses to stay on here for an extra night after the others have gone home . |
| 14 | The play was subsequently put on again for the public . |
| 15 | Such a policy , the court held , was improper , since a ‘ business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders . |
| 16 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 17 | you could nip on there for a |