Example sentences of "[verb] on for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Waqar , relieved after only one over with the new ball , came on for the 17th over and soon caused umpire Shepherd to scowl as he bounced the ball into Atherton 's left arm and Smith 's helmet . |
| 32 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 33 | Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned . |
| 34 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 35 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 36 | Clarke drove on for a further 200 metres before stopping and when he did emerge from the van witnesses reported that he was in a confused state . |
| 37 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 38 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The Pavlova Works will carry on for the next three months and some jobs will be made available at the group 's other centres . |
| 41 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 42 | One of these latter patients ( no 13 ) was operated on for an obstructive small bowel relapse and in this patient , as in the two others , gastroscopy and chest computed tomography showed both lung and gastric recurrences . |
| 43 | I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old . |
| 44 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 45 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 46 | There are already many alternatives to the research carried out on animals which has been going on for a long time . |
| 47 | Here was this summer evening , their forms seemed to say , to be enjoyed by all , going on for a long time yet , with more ahead , and the fair when they felt like it , and the fireworks . |
| 48 | This world has been going on for a long time , oh god knows how many , five hundred thousand million bloody years and eventually it 's going to , it , it , it , it 's going to explode and go |
| 49 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 50 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 51 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 52 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | It is common for patients to appear for their first out-patient appointment with one or other of these problems , which has been going on for the previous few weeks . |
| 57 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 58 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 59 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 60 | 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 . ’ |