Example sentences of "on [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lubrication in the woman , like erection in the man , is not under conscious control and can not be turned on or off at will . |
| 2 | Lasts all day so you can hop on or off at leisure to visit attractions en route . |
| 3 | On and on into space went Scott Seven . |
| 4 | You can go on and on with examples from the New Testament which are reminders of the uniqueness of the life that Jesus brings to those who believe in Him . |
| 5 | She talked on and on about Charlotte Street in the late ‘ thirties and the war . |
| 6 | I talked too much to the other girls over coffee , I went on and on about Eliot 's Chinese jar moving perpetually in its stillness , how ironic , and you could hear them wishing I 'd stop and somehow I could n't . |
| 7 | With deft mastery of the English language the Italian went on and on about misrepresentation . |
| 8 | ‘ They go on and on about Nature , but just look at it . |
| 9 | Erm but , having said that , I mean some of the worst ones are the ones that just go on and on and on about drivel . |
| 10 | They just moan on and on about Fergie this and Fergie that … and I 've simply had enough . |
| 11 | To see them within their realm , led me to understand why divers go on and on about fish and viz. And the viz was good . |
| 12 | With local , with in-house teams it means that we are protected from that ever happening , and I hope that our in-house teams will continue to go on and on from strength to strength , valuable resource to the county council . |
| 13 | The control of transcription — turning on and off of genes — and so controlling the synthesis of specific proteins , involves signal molecules that enter the cell nucleus from the cytoplasm . |
| 14 | The switching on and off of genes in different cells is fundamental to the programme of development . |
| 15 | Of course , switching on and off of genes does not in itself result in developmental change ; switching genes on and off acts by changing which proteins are made and this in turn alters cell behaviour by pathways that , to repeat , may be quite tortuous . |
| 16 | The ghosts followed me on and off to Laggan Locks and into a liquid gold evening walk over to Invergarry , to the west of the canal and Loch Oich . |
| 17 | She 'd known its cut and thrust on and off for years now . |
| 18 | The Election had been on and off for weeks now . |
| 19 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 20 | Cold-blooded creatures would need very even temperatures if their intelligence was not to switch on and off with variations in the weather . |
| 21 | I went there pretty regularly on and off on shore-leave during the early and middle fifties . |
| 22 | I worked on and off on Tremayne 's book for the rest of the morning but found it hard to concentrate . |
| 23 | Each room was wired on a different circuit so that the lights in it could be switched on and off at will . |
| 24 | Visual images flashed on and off at fractions of a second to imprint themselves on the subconscious mind . |
| 25 | I was at that time calling on and off at Faber 's , sometimes seeing Eliot and sometimes missing him . |
| 26 | Tell us what turns you on and off about TV gardening in our reader survey . |
| 27 | I dozed on and off until dawn . ’ |
| 28 | Thus , if each operator learned his lines he could push the button inside his casing to make the lights flash on and off in synchronisation with the soundtrack . |
| 29 | We have n't been trying hard to persuade the Garrimperos to adopt different technologies , more modern technologies that would avoid the contamination of the mercury , but as I said I believe the only way of reaching this goal is if we can organize the Garrimperos to have er a kind of er institutionalized way of exploiting gold , not the sort of gold rush i that is being on and on On and off in Brazil for two centuries right now . |
| 30 | All our electric bulbs would flicker , while fluorescent tubes would flash on and off like disco lights . |