Example sentences of "[verb] on for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It goes on for a minute . |
| 2 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 3 | The Gaijin rode on for a moment . |
| 4 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 5 | After Hercule died , it was suggested that Isabelle should stay on for a while — assist with the children . |
| 6 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 7 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 8 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 9 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 10 | The work hummed on for a while . |
| 11 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 12 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 13 | Yeah , hold on for a time , I 'll be with you in a minute . |
| 14 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 15 | Fergus drove on for a while . |
| 16 | But umm I sort of drove on for a bit and thought it feels alright and then when I got to that , you know B P petrol station , I pulled in and got out and had a look . |
| 17 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 18 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 19 | ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now . |
| 20 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 21 | I lived in my house for going on for a year |
| 22 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 23 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 24 | But certainly by the end of the 17th century there was a huge concert up there at this time of the morning going on for an hour . |
| 25 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 26 | But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’ |
| 27 | I think you expect me to spell everything out , oh , just hang on for a moment will you Barbara , fine . |
| 28 | In homes across the States millions of Americans were switching on for an evening 's viewing . |
| 29 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |
| 30 | Staying on for a while |