Example sentences of "[verb] on for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even now , there are those churlish souls who mourn the fact that Lovesexy is not a There 's a Riot Goin' On for the eighties . |
| 2 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 3 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 4 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 5 | THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 7 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 8 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 9 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 10 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 11 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 12 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 13 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 14 | Most will stay on for an extra year at school or go into some form of further training . |
| 15 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 16 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 17 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 18 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 19 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 20 | THERE was much early enthusiasm from both sides in this senior friendly at Hamilton Park with visitors Portadown just hanging on for a narrow victory . |
| 21 | so you felt that and that pulse point there if you press on it hard enough you can actually stop the one in the wrist and of course that is controlling the flow of blood to the rest of the arm and you leave a pressure point closed off like that for no more than ten minutes , because if you left it on for too long that it means not sufficient blood 's getting to the rest of the , the limbs and the limb must have its blood supply , so you leave the pressure on for ten minutes and then release it , say for ten seconds just so say that the hand comes back pinkish again and if it 's not slowing down , back on with the pressure again for another ten minutes and that 's how you use it , tap off , ten minutes at the most , tap on for a little while , if it 's leaked again reapply , ten minutes at the most , tap on again , okay and that 's how you 'll control it , so if you do have a sit a situation where the bleeding was bad cos you 've got a , a limb severed , you could n't perhaps put sufficient direct pressure over that limb , this done , right , to control the bleeding then you could use indirect pressure , here , breaking or here , right in the , no playing now please , no trying to find this one right now , do this one tonight , in bed and the old lady said now what are you doing to me , never you mind , go to sleep |
| 22 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 23 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 24 | Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day . |
| 25 | The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting . |
| 26 | This view lingered on for a long time and probably still exists to this day . |
| 27 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 28 | He came on for the injured Mumby and headed in a perfect Measham cross to score his first goal for the club . |
| 29 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 30 | ‘ I came on for the final five minutes of that match and got 45 minutes in the second half of the second leg which we won 1–0 . |