Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [to-vb] on for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |
| 4 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 5 | When large crowds gathered for an illegal rave last year at Castlemorton Common in Worcestershire , some critics suggested the easy availability of benefits was one factor in allowing the event to drag on for almost a week . |
| 6 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 7 | In April the garden was a jungle of bluebells , bursting from under the trees in blue tides above your ankles , but by midsummer my grandmother had it tame again , fifty yards of earth between wooden fences bearing docile rows of hollyhock and sweet peas ; an ex-army rug was spread on the shaven lawn for the children to sit on for tea outdoors . |
| 8 | While few serious historians have defended Communist excesses , some have argued that it was only the strategy in whose name they were committed that enabled the Republic to fight on for as long as it did . |
| 9 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |