Example sentences of "[vb pp] on for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he said to Bella , ‘ Yes , he told me , after , that he was dead drunk once , in Portsmouth , when he was on leave from the Navy , and he 'd had them tattooed on for a bet . ’ |
| 4 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 5 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 6 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 7 | Pétain , he recommended , should now be put in command not only of the Left Bank , but of the Right Bank as well ; the ‘ fatigued ’ General Herr should be kept on for a while as Pétain 's adviser , then quietly ‘ limogé ’ . |