Example sentences of "[verb] on for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 2 | Hunt goes on for two climbers after body is found |
| 3 | The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings . |
| 4 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 5 | There are , of course , many occupations in which similar demands of constant readiness are made , but when it goes on for twenty years or more it is inclined to upset a good domestic relationship . |
| 6 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 7 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 8 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 9 | Immigration laws inherited from the former East German state , which were due to expire on January 1st , are being allowed to carry on for Soviet Jews arriving in Berlin . |
| 10 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 11 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 12 | ‘ Got to observe strict ARP , you see , Miss , though here we are gettin' on for five months of war and not a peep out of a Jerry plane . |
| 13 | For this reason they are not so popular with knitters who have standard gauge machines and they do n't seem to have caught on for chunky machines , possibly because they are too thick for the former and not thick enough for the latter . |
| 14 | You set the a great egg race type topic to work on for three weeks . |
| 15 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 16 | Hunt on for two raiders who escaped with £1,000 from Yorkshire Building Society on Allerton Road , Allerton . |
| 17 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 18 | Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house . |
| 19 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 20 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 21 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 22 | These include a one per cent discount for single contributions and a five per cent loyalty bonus for people who hold on for ten years . |
| 23 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 24 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 25 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 26 | MOTORIST David Millen drove on for three miles after an accident — with a severed arm hanging by a thread from his shoulder . |
| 27 | In the illustration the trial phase is turned on for fixed times and the rate of current rise , and corresponding rotor position , is deduced from the current level attained at the end of the trial . |
| 28 | ‘ And these unveilings have been going on for eight years ? |
| 29 | Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii . |
| 30 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |