Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] on end " in BNC.
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| 1 | The South African whistled tunelessly for hours on end , and always the same tune , ‘ Sarie Marais ’ . |
| 2 | She went on : ‘ They would go off together for days on end on their bicycles . |
| 3 | buyers and dealers at the really smart sales thrown together for days on end in the sales rooms are keen observers of who paid how much for what , who 's selling what and why . |
| 4 | Miguel often went away for hours on end , but never when Jose was there . |
| 5 | While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors ! |
| 6 | And there had been very hard times indeed when Daddy Ni was drunk and away for days on end and no one else in the family was earning : except the mother slaving in beatified drudgery . |
| 7 | For there was nobody like Daddy Ni as a drinker , heroic , a ‘ twelve pints a day man ’ , often away for nights on end — ‘ met a friend ’ — incapable of passing a pub , and a gambler too — ‘ the dogs ’ — leaving wife and children short and maybe desperate when times were hard enough already . |
| 8 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 9 | The burning of hospital waste is certainly relevant in my area because , for years St. George 's hospital , Tooting has been burning enormous quantities of such waste — often for days on end . |
| 10 | Mrs Burnett seems to have taken marital and maternal duties lightly , and though she did not formally end the marriage until 1898 , from early days she made a practice of absenting herself from her family , often for months on end , travelling in North America and Europe , and spending long periods in England , where she moved in high society and had many literary friends , Henry James and Israel Zangwill [ qq.v. ] among them . |
| 11 | I could stand here for hours on end |
| 12 | We stay up here for weeks on end , riding our horses , just having fun . ’ |
| 13 | And sometimes , and sometimes for minutes on end ( especially if you 're lying down ) , nothing hurts . |
| 14 | Sometimes for nights on end I had no sleep . |